{"conversationCode":"041-039","tapeNumber":41,"conversationNumber":39,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-041-039","startDateTime":"1973-06-22T17:36:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-22T17:41:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Jun-1973","startTime":"1:36 PM","endDate":"22-Jun-1973","endTime":"1:41 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon;","description":"On June 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 1:36 pm to 1:41 pm. 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(“Pat”) Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n             -Boehm birds\n                   -Visit to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]\n             -Unnamed craftsman\n                   Watchmaker\n                         -New York City\n                         -Rose Mary Woods\n\n     US-USSR summit\n         -Television [TV] broadcast\n               -Tricia Nixon Cox","filename":["041-039.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Cox, Tricia Nixon"],"prevCode":"041-038","nextCode":"041-040","transcript":[{"start":6.14,"end":7.95,"text":"have done this, the two of you together."},{"start":9.37,"end":12.48,"text":"People might think that, well, if it hadn't been for you, it might not have happened."},{"start":13.06,"end":18.36,"text":"I wonder if you would talk to Mama, you and Julie, what gifts we could..."},{"start":18.78,"end":22.38,"text":"provide for Mrs. Brushneff and members of their family."},{"start":22.44,"end":23.79,"text":"They've provided some for you."},{"start":24.63,"end":25.09,"text":"You know what I mean?"},{"start":25.11,"end":28.37,"text":"You want to talk to her about it and see what they could scrape up around the place."},{"start":29.11,"end":29.21,"text":"Good."},{"start":29.23,"end":32.76,"text":"When I was there, I sent bean birds to them after the visit."},{"start":32.82,"end":33.14,"text":"Oh, you did?"},{"start":33.42,"end":34.7,"text":"To the children, to entertain."},{"start":34.72,"end":35.94,"text":"Oh, so they've got that."},{"start":35.98,"end":36.74,"text":"They've got that."},{"start":37.24,"end":38.4,"text":"So we'll think of something else."},{"start":38.42,"end":41.09,"text":"Maybe there's some sort of items that they'd like."},{"start":41.11,"end":44.11,"text":"Maybe they're not so interested in basically that thing."},{"start":44.63,"end":47.01,"text":"They like sort of, frankly,"},{"start":48.02,"end":50.73,"text":"mechanical things, like he wanted a car and so forth."},{"start":50.75,"end":52.93,"text":"Maybe that guy that makes watches in New York."},{"start":54.05,"end":56.28,"text":"You know, I'm sure they'd love to have a good watch."},{"start":56.5,"end":59.84,"text":"Yeah, if we could get watches in New York from them, that would be good."},{"start":59.86,"end":61.27,"text":"That's a good idea, Daddy."},{"start":61.29,"end":62.33,"text":"Rose knows that person."},{"start":62.49,"end":62.79,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":63.03,"end":63.63,"text":"Okay."},{"start":64.13,"end":65.11,"text":"We'll be watching on TV."},{"start":65.13,"end":66.17,"text":"Bye, Daddy."},{"start":66.31,"end":66.56,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, regarding appropriate reciprocal gifts for Viktoria Brezhnev and her family following the US-USSR summit. The President suggested obtaining high-quality watches from a New York City craftsman, noting that Rose Mary Woods could facilitate the request. He tasked Tricia with coordinating with her mother and sister, Julie, to finalize the selection of gifts.","topics":["US-USSR summit","Gift giving","Diplomacy","Tricia Nixon Cox","Rose Mary Woods"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:11:14.579Z"},"topicSlugs":["us-ussr-summit","gift-giving","diplomacy","tricia-nixon-cox","rose-mary-woods"],"audioDurationSec":74,"audioFiles":[{"file":"041-039.mp3","bytes":2361344,"durationSec":73.68,"bitrate":256389,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.713Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/041-039.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/041-039","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/41/conversation-041-039","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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