{"conversationCode":"037-172","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":172,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-172","startDateTime":"1973-03-20T22:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-20T22:40:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Mar-1973","startTime":"5:39 PM","endDate":"20-Mar-1973","endTime":"5:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon;","description":"On March 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 5:39 pm to 5:40 pm. 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Ehrlichman\n\f                                            - 120 -\n\n                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY\n\n              -Budget speech preparation\n              -Dinner\n                     -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon\n              -Weather\n              -The President’s dinner\n\n******************************************************************************","filename":["037-172.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Cox, Tricia Nixon"],"prevCode":"037-171","nextCode":"037-173","transcript":[{"start":0.35,"end":0.81,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.35,"end":2,"text":"Daddy?"},{"start":2.02,"end":2.98,"text":"Feeling all right today?"},{"start":3,"end":3.24,"text":"Better?"},{"start":3.28,"end":4.62,"text":"Yeah, I feel a little better."},{"start":4.94,"end":5.84,"text":"A little better, not much."},{"start":5.92,"end":7.37,"text":"Yeah, no, I do, sure."},{"start":8.09,"end":8.53,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":9.13,"end":9.63,"text":"Fine, fine."},{"start":9.65,"end":10.73,"text":"I've been a little busy."},{"start":10.75,"end":14.92,"text":"I just called to tell you that I'm going to have to stay over here to do some work with John Erlichman on a..."},{"start":14.94,"end":15.12,"text":"Right."},{"start":15.58,"end":16.52,"text":"On a, uh..."},{"start":16.5,"end":18.48,"text":"budget speech that we have to make."},{"start":18.66,"end":19.93,"text":"Oh, boy."},{"start":20.34,"end":23.89,"text":"So if you wouldn't, Mommy could maybe have a bite together over there."},{"start":24.21,"end":24.79,"text":"Okay."},{"start":24.81,"end":29.36,"text":"You'll be sure she gets plenty to eat if you wouldn't."},{"start":29.52,"end":29.64,"text":"Okay."},{"start":29.66,"end":30.38,"text":"We'll see you later."},{"start":30.4,"end":32.8,"text":"It looks like a pretty good day out, doesn't it?"},{"start":32.9,"end":33.54,"text":"Not too bad."},{"start":33.56,"end":34.56,"text":"Really beautiful day."},{"start":35,"end":35.58,"text":"Yeah, beautiful."},{"start":35.6,"end":37.16,"text":"Did you get out at all?"},{"start":37.18,"end":39.95,"text":"No, I've been right here in the office all day long."},{"start":40.49,"end":41.47,"text":"But it's fine, it's fine."},{"start":41.99,"end":46.15,"text":"I don't have to work too late, but I've got to do a little"},{"start":49.37,"end":50.31,"text":"Okay."},{"start":50.53,"end":51.68,"text":"Well, I'll tell Mommy and..."},{"start":51.7,"end":53,"text":"I'm just going to have a bite over here."},{"start":53.02,"end":53.62,"text":"I'm just going to have..."},{"start":53.64,"end":54.3,"text":"I'm not going to even have that."},{"start":54.32,"end":55.87,"text":"I'm just going to have some bacon and eggs or something."},{"start":56.01,"end":56.43,"text":"Oh, boy."},{"start":56.77,"end":57.29,"text":"Okay."},{"start":57.31,"end":58.91,"text":"This is all I need."},{"start":58.93,"end":59.07,"text":"Right."},{"start":59.15,"end":60.24,"text":"We'll see you later, then."},{"start":60.4,"end":61.38,"text":"That's right."},{"start":61.44,"end":62.8,"text":"Okay, well, and you just take care now."},{"start":62.9,"end":63.78,"text":"Okay."},{"start":63.8,"end":64.02,"text":"Bye, Daddy."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon spoke with his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, to notify her that he would be working late at the White House with John Ehrlichman on a budget speech. He requested that she join First Lady Pat Nixon for dinner in his absence to ensure she was well-cared for. 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