{"conversationCode":"046-007","tapeNumber":46,"conversationNumber":7,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-046-007","startDateTime":"1973-05-11T18:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-11T18:43:00.000Z","startDate":"11-May-1973","startTime":"2:42 PM","endDate":"11-May-1973","endTime":"2:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Woods, Rose Mary; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;","description":"On May 11, 1973, Rose Mary Woods, President Richard M. Nixon, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 2:42 pm to 2:43 pm. 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Edgar Hoover’s files\n\f                                                -4-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n           -Custody\n           -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman\n           -Lawrence M. Higby\n\n     Materials in Woods’ custody","filename":["046-007.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Woods, Rose Mary","Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haig, Alexander M., Jr."],"prevCode":"046-006","nextCode":"046-008","transcript":[{"start":0.45,"end":2.46,"text":"Mr. President, Ms. Woods."},{"start":5.56,"end":11.89,"text":"I'm sorry to bother you, but you know what Hague asked me to get out."},{"start":12.37,"end":18.36,"text":"I don't have any recollection of and cannot find anything that would give me a clue on the outside of any envelope you gave me."},{"start":22.65,"end":25.72,"text":"Just a second."},{"start":25.74,"end":25.84,"text":"Okay."},{"start":29,"end":43.54,"text":"Oh, I think, Rose, it's a misunderstanding."},{"start":43.58,"end":44.88,"text":"I just was right here."},{"start":45.72,"end":51.25,"text":"What it is is that some of the files from Hoover were delivered"},{"start":51.85,"end":57.36,"text":"After John and Bob left, delivered to a safe, which was supposed to be in your office."},{"start":57.38,"end":58.1,"text":"I think that's what it is."},{"start":58.42,"end":59.04,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":59.87,"end":60.15,"text":"No."},{"start":60.37,"end":61.59,"text":"No, they were not, ever."},{"start":62.53,"end":63.39,"text":"Nothing was delivered to you there, huh?"},{"start":63.41,"end":65.37,"text":"Nothing from Hoover was ever delivered here."},{"start":65.83,"end":69.16,"text":"And not by Bob or John or anybody else?"},{"start":70.56,"end":70.62,"text":"No."},{"start":70.64,"end":70.74,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":70.76,"end":72.14,"text":"It was supposed to be in some other office."},{"start":72.36,"end":72.6,"text":"Okay."},{"start":72.62,"end":72.94,"text":"Okay."},{"start":72.96,"end":73.24,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":73.26,"end":74.91,"text":"Do you want me to ask Larry about it?"},{"start":74.93,"end":76.25,"text":"What?"},{"start":76.27,"end":79.21,"text":"Hank thought Larry knew and thought we had him, so..."},{"start":79.7,"end":81.76,"text":"Let me... Al's here."},{"start":81.96,"end":82.84,"text":"Al will check."},{"start":83.31,"end":84.01,"text":"You don't have..."},{"start":84.03,"end":87.03,"text":"I mean, we're not trying to concoct anything, you know."},{"start":87.23,"end":89.5,"text":"We're just trying to find out where the hell the damn things are."},{"start":89.68,"end":90.02,"text":"That's right."},{"start":90.04,"end":93.24,"text":"Well, we went down because I thought maybe you know some of your things."},{"start":93.42,"end":93.7,"text":"Right."},{"start":93.77,"end":94.63,"text":"And we started..."},{"start":94.91,"end":95.15,"text":"Okay."},{"start":95.17,"end":97.49,"text":"The only thing we have are your little personal load things."},{"start":97.51,"end":98.11,"text":"All right, fine."},{"start":98.13,"end":98.95,"text":"Well, that's different."},{"start":98.97,"end":101.52,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Alexander Haig confer to locate missing files once belonging to J. Edgar Hoover that were reportedly sent to the White House following the departures of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Woods clarifies that the sensitive materials were never delivered to her office or placed in her custody. Consequently, Haig agrees to investigate the matter further to determine the actual location of the files.","topics":["Watergate","J. Edgar Hoover","H. R. 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