{"conversationCode":"037-020","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-020","startDateTime":"1973-03-01T21:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-01T21:44:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Mar-1973","startTime":"4:42 PM","endDate":"1-Mar-1973","endTime":"4:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Brennan, Peter J.;","description":"On March 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Peter J. Brennan talked on the telephone from 4:42 pm to 4:44 pm. 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Buchanan.\n\n[See Conversation No. 416-11]\n\n       Memorandum for President\n            -Materials\n            -Timing\n                   -President’s schedule\n                           -Dinner for Meir\n            -Preparation for press conference\n                   -New information\n                   -Prisoners of War [POW]\n            -Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]\n\f                                             - 14 -\n\n                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY\n\n                      -Washington Star","filename":["037-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Brennan, Peter J."],"prevCode":"037-019","nextCode":"037-021","transcript":[{"start":1.16,"end":1.62,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.7,"end":2,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":3.18,"end":5.47,"text":"Are you coming on the update of that, uh..."},{"start":5.49,"end":5.89,"text":"Pretty good."},{"start":5.91,"end":10.81,"text":"I'm getting some materials in, and I'll mail them all up in a memorandum for you this afternoon."},{"start":11.13,"end":12.13,"text":"Oh, fine, fine."},{"start":13.38,"end":15.62,"text":"And, uh, what time do you think you'll have it?"},{"start":15.64,"end":19.78,"text":"I just want to... Say, uh, 6.30."},{"start":19.8,"end":20.28,"text":"Is that all right?"},{"start":21.44,"end":21.58,"text":"Sure."},{"start":21.61,"end":25.85,"text":"Well, listen, if it's going to be then, I wouldn't, uh..."},{"start":25.87,"end":26.49,"text":"Uh, you don't..."},{"start":26.59,"end":28.91,"text":"There isn't... Let's see."},{"start":28.93,"end":29.57,"text":"6.30 is fine."},{"start":29.59,"end":31.14,"text":"6.30, 7 o'clock is all right."},{"start":31.72,"end":33.32,"text":"I have to go over to the dinner."},{"start":33.7,"end":34.95,"text":"But don't do too much on it."},{"start":34.97,"end":37.19,"text":"It isn't really..."},{"start":37.21,"end":38.95,"text":"I think you've got most all the material."},{"start":38.97,"end":43.39,"text":"There isn't really a hell of a lot of stuff that I want to get into."},{"start":43.49,"end":45.19,"text":"I mean, just anything that's new."},{"start":45.83,"end":46.67,"text":"That's all we're getting."},{"start":47.03,"end":48.54,"text":"And they won't be long answers."},{"start":48.56,"end":50.08,"text":"They'll just be sort of key in the direction."},{"start":50.38,"end":56.22,"text":"Right, because basically the questions are about the same."},{"start":56.3,"end":60.55,"text":"The POW thing is..."},{"start":60.57,"end":61.31,"text":"So that's..."},{"start":63.97,"end":64.41,"text":"Okay."},{"start":65.89,"end":66.78,"text":"Let's see what else is coming up."},{"start":66.8,"end":68.04,"text":"I'm sure a good headline, right."},{"start":68.06,"end":68.48,"text":"Okay, sir."},{"start":68.84,"end":69.94,"text":"Yeah, that is, isn't it?"},{"start":69.96,"end":70.96,"text":"Yeah, it sure is, right."},{"start":70.98,"end":71.14,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":71.24,"end":72.89,"text":"Your Equal Rights Amendment is about to come up."},{"start":73.45,"end":73.91,"text":"What, is it?"},{"start":74.07,"end":76.93,"text":"Yeah, one more that's been, it's taken a couple of beatings in a few states."},{"start":77.85,"end":80.68,"text":"It's on the front page of the Star tonight."},{"start":80.86,"end":81.06,"text":"Good."},{"start":81.08,"end":81.3,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":81.4,"end":81.84,"text":"Okay."},{"start":81.86,"end":82.7,"text":"Okay."},{"start":82.72,"end":83.36,"text":"So long, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Patrick J. 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