{"conversationCode":"131-001","tapeNumber":131,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-131-001","startDateTime":"1972-05-16T04:01:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-17T18:26:00.000Z","startDate":"16-May-1972","startTime":"12:01 AM","endDate":"17-May-1972","endTime":"2:26 PM","dateCertainty":"estimated","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"[Unknown person(s)];","description":"Unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:01 am on May 16, 1972 and 2:26 pm on May 17, 1972. 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By the way, let me check something."},{"start":9.78,"end":10.82,"text":"We'll get you on the line."},{"start":11.24,"end":22.64,"text":"OK. You got to check something."},{"start":22.68,"end":23.79,"text":"Then he's going to get back to me."},{"start":24.25,"end":25.41,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":25.73,"end":28.15,"text":"We disregarded the other phone in here."},{"start":28.45,"end":28.57,"text":"OK."},{"start":31.03,"end":34.19,"text":"Uh, why don't you try and call me on that one?"},{"start":34.23,"end":35.49,"text":"It's not the same thing I just did."},{"start":35.97,"end":36.65,"text":"Just picked it up."},{"start":37.37,"end":37.95,"text":"Oh, okay then."},{"start":38.07,"end":39.76,"text":"You mean a secure phone up there?"},{"start":39.92,"end":40.08,"text":"No."},{"start":41.74,"end":43.96,"text":"Uh, oh, you're on it now?"},{"start":44.5,"end":44.64,"text":"No."},{"start":46.78,"end":52.63,"text":"There's, uh, two other, there's two instruments, you know, and we just... Yeah."},{"start":53.49,"end":54.73,"text":"Where's the other one?"},{"start":55.27,"end":58.29,"text":"Uh, the ones over by is the easy chair there on that table."},{"start":60.6,"end":61.36,"text":"That's smart."},{"start":61.98,"end":62.2,"text":"Well?"},{"start":63.68,"end":66.82,"text":"Let me see."},{"start":68.98,"end":70.48,"text":"Okay, that's okay then."},{"start":71.56,"end":71.96,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":72,"end":72.31,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":72.42,"end":73.28,"text":"Yeah, I guess I did more."},{"start":73.33,"end":75.25,"text":"Just tying loose up there for a little bit."},{"start":75.89,"end":80.67,"text":"Well, one way or the other, we can do the work from your end, right?"},{"start":81.37,"end":82.55,"text":"Yeah, but we just want to check it."},{"start":83.25,"end":84.85,"text":"How about doing this?"},{"start":85.15,"end":85.39,"text":"Okay."},{"start":87.76,"end":88.52,"text":"Call up Robinson."},{"start":88.9,"end":91.12,"text":"Tell him to send his people over to go ahead and check it up."},{"start":91.54,"end":92.98,"text":"You hang loose up there for a while."},{"start":93.24,"end":93.72,"text":"In the study?"},{"start":94.16,"end":94.44,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":94.78,"end":98.94,"text":"And, well, you can stand outside, and then in about 15 minutes give me a call."},{"start":98.96,"end":99.78,"text":"All right, at 1230."},{"start":99.91,"end":100.34,"text":"Okay."},{"start":100.98,"end":105.55,"text":"All right, and that way we'll... Yeah, because, you know, there was only mention of one, you know."},{"start":105.59,"end":106.35,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":106.65,"end":107.81,"text":"Okay, so I'll call Robinson."},{"start":107.83,"end":109.17,"text":"Robinson asks where we are."},{"start":109.29,"end":109.93,"text":"We're monitoring."},{"start":110.11,"end":110.63,"text":"Okay, fine."},{"start":110.69,"end":110.93,"text":"All right."},{"start":110.95,"end":111.95,"text":"Okay, we'll see you."},{"start":111.97,"end":112.09,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Technical staff conducted a verification process to ensure the operational status and security of multiple telephone lines located at the Camp David study table. Participants coordinated a plan to have an individual named Robinson dispatch personnel to finalize these technical checks. 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