{"conversationCode":"140-024","tapeNumber":140,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-140-024","startDateTime":"1972-08-17T14:56:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-17T14:58:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Aug-1972","startTime":"10:56 AM","endDate":"17-Aug-1972","endTime":"10:58 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator; Meany, George;","description":"On August 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Camp David operator, and George Meany talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:56 am to 10:58 am. 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(President)","Camp David Operator","Meany, George"],"prevCode":"140-023","nextCode":"140-025","transcript":[{"start":0.77,"end":1.18,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.2,"end":3.09,"text":"Mr. President, Mr. Meany for you."},{"start":3.11,"end":3.43,"text":"Hello."},{"start":4.8,"end":5.3,"text":"Go ahead, sir."},{"start":5.32,"end":5.82,"text":"Hello."},{"start":6,"end":7.33,"text":"Hello, Mr. President."},{"start":7.35,"end":11.69,"text":"I just wanted to say that in case the White House operator told you that I tried to reach you last night."},{"start":11.73,"end":13.07,"text":"I'm at Camp David."},{"start":13.1,"end":20.27,"text":"I didn't have any big thing, but I learned from one of my spies that you and your grandson had your birthday yesterday."},{"start":20.39,"end":22.51,"text":"So I just wanted to congratulate you."},{"start":22.53,"end":23.79,"text":"Well, thank you very much."},{"start":23.83,"end":25.09,"text":"You're really lucky to have a boy."},{"start":25.13,"end":26.41,"text":"He was born the same day you were."},{"start":26.67,"end":27.45,"text":"Same day."},{"start":28.46,"end":29.9,"text":"But just a few years after you."},{"start":30.18,"end":31.44,"text":"I'll tell you a little story."},{"start":31.46,"end":34.55,"text":"We were having a little ice cream and cake last night."},{"start":34.85,"end":35.61,"text":"My daughter said,"},{"start":36.04,"end":37.2,"text":"And she reads the paper."},{"start":37.23,"end":40.58,"text":"She said, well, Daddy, you're a crusty old 78."},{"start":41.36,"end":44.85,"text":"And the kid looked up and he says, and I'm a crusty old five."},{"start":44.89,"end":47.23,"text":"That's great."},{"start":47.47,"end":50.21,"text":"Well, thank you very much."},{"start":50.53,"end":51.13,"text":"Right, right."},{"start":51.77,"end":55.96,"text":"I don't know if you heard, but the building trade unanimously adopted our position."},{"start":56.08,"end":56.76,"text":"Oh, good."},{"start":57.72,"end":58.36,"text":"That's right."},{"start":58.42,"end":59.36,"text":"That's the national."},{"start":59.6,"end":65.49,"text":"National building trade unanimously adopted our position."},{"start":65.55,"end":67.19,"text":"That's the guts of the organization."},{"start":67.21,"end":68.39,"text":"That's the guts."},{"start":69.06,"end":71.72,"text":"Our other boys want to go around and play games."},{"start":71.78,"end":72.48,"text":"That's right."},{"start":72.52,"end":73.14,"text":"We understand."},{"start":73.5,"end":73.74,"text":"Okay."},{"start":73.76,"end":74.08,"text":"Right."},{"start":74.06,"end":76.55,"text":"Well, is it raining down there?"},{"start":76.89,"end":79.48,"text":"Yes, it's sort of drizzling."},{"start":79.5,"end":80.6,"text":"We're fogged in up here."},{"start":80.92,"end":84.09,"text":"I'm trying to put some words together for an acceptance speech."},{"start":84.11,"end":84.67,"text":"Yeah, yeah."},{"start":84.69,"end":85.13,"text":"Hard work."},{"start":85.36,"end":87.28,"text":"Well, anyway, give the boy my best."},{"start":87.66,"end":87.98,"text":"All right."},{"start":88,"end":88.56,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":88.6,"end":88.91,"text":"Bye."},{"start":89.21,"end":89.29,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and AFL-CIO President George Meany held a brief, cordial telephone conversation primarily to exchange birthday greetings regarding Nixon’s grandson. Meany informed the President that the national building trades had unanimously adopted the administration’s position, which Nixon praised as the \"guts\" of the labor movement. 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