{"conversationCode":"153-012","tapeNumber":153,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-153-012","startDateTime":"1972-11-14T17:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-11-14T17:44:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Nov-1972","startTime":"12:42 PM","endDate":"14-Nov-1972","endTime":"12:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On November 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone at Camp David from 12:42 pm to 12:44 pm. 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(“Bebe”) Rebozo\n            -Woods’ telephone call\n            -Trip to Camp David\n                   -Birthday\n                   -Arrival\n\f                                              -14-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                           Conversation No. 153-12 (cont’d)\n\n                  -The President’s schedule\n                        -Meetings\n                              -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew\n                              -John B. Connally\n                        -Dinner\n                              -White House staff\n                  -Birthday\n                        -Cake\n                              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n                        -Scheduling\n\n       George E. Allen’s telephone call\n            -Invitation to the President\n                  -Family, friends\n                  -[Washington Redskins] football game\n                  -The President’s schedule\n                         -Second term reorganization\n                         -Thanksgiving\n                         -Public appearances\n\n       Rebozo\n            -John V. (“Jack”) Brennan\n            -Woods’ telephone call back to the President\n\n******************************************************************************","filename":["153-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"153-011","nextCode":"153-013","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":0.99,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.01,"end":1.19,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.23,"end":1.89,"text":"How are you today?"},{"start":2.39,"end":2.92,"text":"Fine."},{"start":2.94,"end":3.71,"text":"Nice and foggy here."},{"start":5.24,"end":6.64,"text":"Pretty busy, otherwise fine."},{"start":6.9,"end":10.66,"text":"Are we wondering maybe if you could give B.B."},{"start":10.68,"end":11.12,"text":"a call?"},{"start":11.94,"end":21.81,"text":"He's going to come up—he was going to come up Thursday, you know, for his birthday—and see if his schedule could permit if he could come earlier."},{"start":22.03,"end":26.48,"text":"I mean, he could come up today or tomorrow, you know, or something."},{"start":26.95,"end":34.54,"text":"Because I'm keeping all my evenings free, see, because I'm seeing Agnew tomorrow and Connolly the next day and so forth."},{"start":34.56,"end":42.02,"text":"So it will be good for me to have somebody just see I don't like to have dinner with the staff and earning like that, see."},{"start":42.75,"end":44.05,"text":"And nobody else is here."},{"start":44.95,"end":47.71,"text":"So you could come up today or tomorrow."},{"start":47.73,"end":49.21,"text":"Yeah, at a time that is convenient."},{"start":49.51,"end":51.84,"text":"And then I think Dooley ordered a birthday cake, isn't it?"},{"start":51.88,"end":53.08,"text":"Friday's his birthday."},{"start":53.1,"end":56.26,"text":"Birthday's Friday, but he was going to come up Thursday so that he could be here."},{"start":56.83,"end":59.13,"text":"Thursday night or something like that."},{"start":59.16,"end":60.82,"text":"Okay, we'll see if he can make it today or tomorrow."},{"start":60.84,"end":61.32,"text":"Today or tomorrow."},{"start":61.34,"end":62.04,"text":"That is convenient."},{"start":62.06,"end":62.92,"text":"It's whatever he likes."},{"start":63.5,"end":63.72,"text":"Okay."},{"start":65.06,"end":67.67,"text":"And Coach George Allen called this morning."},{"start":67.99,"end":68.29,"text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":68.47,"end":73.7,"text":"He wanted to know if you wanted to come with your family or a friend for the game Monday night."},{"start":73.72,"end":75.26,"text":"Well, you should call him back then."},{"start":75.3,"end":80.19,"text":"I'd just love to, but I'm in the midst of this reorganization plan."},{"start":80.21,"end":81.79,"text":"I told him I didn't think you could, but that I could."},{"start":81.81,"end":86.75,"text":"I greatly appreciate it, but I've got to wait until after Thanksgiving before I can get to a game."},{"start":86.94,"end":87.46,"text":"Okay."},{"start":87.92,"end":88.88,"text":"Fine."},{"start":88.9,"end":91.42,"text":"I thought I'd ask you so I wouldn't keep him, you know."},{"start":91.72,"end":92.22,"text":"No, no."},{"start":92.33,"end":92.97,"text":"I can't do it."},{"start":93.09,"end":96.27,"text":"I don't want to go out right now publicly anyway."},{"start":96.29,"end":96.47,"text":"Okay."},{"start":97.81,"end":98.21,"text":"Okay."},{"start":98.75,"end":99.08,"text":"All right."},{"start":99.82,"end":103.26,"text":"And shall I let you know what BB says or just let Brandon know when he'll be there?"},{"start":104.84,"end":105.42,"text":"You can call me back."},{"start":105.75,"end":106.07,"text":"Okay."},{"start":107.21,"end":107.95,"text":"Yeah, thank you."},{"start":108.09,"end":108.29,"text":"All right."},{"start":109.05,"end":109.13,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon coordinates with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to arrange for Bebe Rebozo to visit Camp David earlier than planned to provide company during a busy period of staff meetings. Nixon expresses a desire to avoid dining with staff during his current series of consultations with Vice President Agnew and John Connally. 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