{"conversationCode":"037-037","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":37,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-037","startDateTime":"1973-03-03T01:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-03T01:08:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Mar-1973","startTime":"8:06 PM","endDate":"2-Mar-1973","endTime":"8:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rebozo, Charles G. (\"Bebe\");","description":"On March 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo talked on the telephone from 8:06 pm to 8:08 pm. 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(\"Bebe\") Rebozo.\n\n       Rebozo's location\n\n       President’s health\n\n       Sudan hostages [Black September]\n              -Khartoum\n              -Killings\n              -Blackmail\n              -Administration's response\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift during\nchronological review 2007-2013]\n\n       President’s invitation to Rebozo\n              -Sammy Davis, Jr.\n                      -Evening at the White House\n              -Camp David\n              -White House Stay\n              -Schedule\n              -Attire\n\n       President’s health\n\n       Weather in Florida\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n       Vietnam settlement\n             -Prisoners of War’s [POWs] return\n\f                                                - 25 -\n\n                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY\n\n                                        (rev. Sept-09)\n\n              -Walter H. Annenberg’s reaction","filename":["037-037.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Rebozo, Charles G. (\"Bebe\")"],"prevCode":"037-036","nextCode":"037-038","transcript":[{"start":0.86,"end":2.35,"text":"I have Mr. Rebozo, sir."},{"start":3.59,"end":4.15,"text":"Hello."},{"start":4.39,"end":4.86,"text":"Mr. President."},{"start":5.21,"end":6.69,"text":"BB, where are you tonight?"},{"start":6.71,"end":8.34,"text":"Well, I'm at my sister's house down the street."},{"start":8.36,"end":9.02,"text":"How are you feeling?"},{"start":9.38,"end":10.48,"text":"Just fine, just fine."},{"start":10.8,"end":13.58,"text":"I hope you didn't call to offer me that post-it cartoon."},{"start":14.04,"end":15.32,"text":"Oh, boy, isn't that too bad."},{"start":15.35,"end":16.07,"text":"You heard that."},{"start":16.09,"end":16.43,"text":"Horrible."},{"start":16.95,"end":17.47,"text":"Yeah, well."},{"start":17.81,"end":18.69,"text":"That's unreal."},{"start":18.71,"end":21.85,"text":"Of course, we couldn't give in to the blackmail."},{"start":21.97,"end":23.66,"text":"No way, no way."},{"start":23.68,"end":25.3,"text":"So I'd indicate that earlier that we wouldn't."},{"start":25.32,"end":26.98,"text":"That's all you'd have to do, just one thing."},{"start":27,"end":31.03,"text":"Well, if we gave in once, then they'd do it everywhere around the world."},{"start":31.15,"end":32.47,"text":"Yeah, everybody would be doing it."},{"start":32.72,"end":34.4,"text":"That's horrendous."},{"start":35.5,"end":43.57,"text":"I was thinking, why don't you come up tomorrow and come to the Sammy Davis party and then go to Camp David with me for a day?"},{"start":43.77,"end":44.09,"text":"Sure."},{"start":44.13,"end":45.53,"text":"Okay."},{"start":47.22,"end":47.5,"text":"Great."},{"start":47.52,"end":54.37,"text":"Get up here and then you could stay at the White House."},{"start":54.38,"end":56.77,"text":"There's plenty of room."},{"start":58,"end":62.32,"text":"And I would go to Camp David about Sunday around noon."},{"start":63.64,"end":64.32,"text":"Okay."},{"start":64.34,"end":64.69,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":65.41,"end":65.85,"text":"Okay."},{"start":66.11,"end":68.31,"text":"Is the party black tie?"},{"start":68.67,"end":69.97,"text":"Yeah, bring your black tie, you know."},{"start":70.59,"end":75.28,"text":"Otherwise, they'll think you look like a slob."},{"start":75.84,"end":76.68,"text":"That's right."},{"start":77.26,"end":79.8,"text":"Black tie and don't bring any mustard."},{"start":81.71,"end":82.53,"text":"Okay."},{"start":82.55,"end":85.03,"text":"How are you feeling, all right?"},{"start":85.29,"end":86.53,"text":"Oh, fine, fine."},{"start":86.69,"end":91.54,"text":"I hate to even tell you this, but you wouldn't believe the weather we've had all week."},{"start":91.56,"end":91.8,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":92.12,"end":92.72,"text":"You wouldn't believe it."},{"start":94.46,"end":95.2,"text":"It's just been gorgeous."},{"start":95.22,"end":97.34,"text":"Well, that's the way it is, yeah."},{"start":97.36,"end":97.67,"text":"Okay."},{"start":97.69,"end":109.88,"text":"Well, actually, you know, since we were talking, a lot of good things have happened, though, the way these POWs have handled themselves, and we put it to those bastards and made them come through on that anyway."},{"start":109.9,"end":110.48,"text":"You know, I was talking..."},{"start":111.15,"end":115.58,"text":"I talked to Walter Annenberg yesterday, and he is so proud."},{"start":115.78,"end":120.66,"text":"He's just so proud of that POW return, the way you handled all that."},{"start":121.19,"end":123.37,"text":"He's just bursting at the seams."},{"start":123.39,"end":123.97,"text":"That's good."},{"start":124.23,"end":125.03,"text":"He really is."},{"start":125.05,"end":126.15,"text":"He's properly soaked."},{"start":126.37,"end":126.65,"text":"Right."},{"start":127.63,"end":127.99,"text":"Well, wonderful."},{"start":129.13,"end":132.72,"text":"Well, anyway, you can come up and have yourself a good time."},{"start":132.94,"end":133.38,"text":"Okay."},{"start":133.52,"end":134.62,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":134.7,"end":134.78,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Richard Nixon and his close associate Bebe Rebozo discussed the recent Black September hostage killings in Khartoum, with both men affirming the administration's decision to refuse the terrorists' blackmail demands. Nixon invited Rebozo to Washington for a social weekend involving a Sammy Davis, Jr. event at the White House and a visit to Camp David. 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