{"conversationCode":"188-014","tapeNumber":188,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-188-014","startDateTime":"1972-05-18T21:56:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-20T03:59:00.000Z","startDate":"18-May-1972","startTime":"5:56 PM","endDate":"19-May-1972","endTime":"11:59 PM","dateCertainty":"estimated","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"[Unknown person(s)]; Camp David Operator; McLenden, Kenneth T.;","description":"Unknown person(s), Camp David operator, and Kenneth T. McLenden met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 5:56 pm on May 18, 1972 and 11:59 pm on May 19, 1972. 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operator at an unknown time.\n\n[Conversation No. 188-14a]\n\n[See Conversation No. 130-7]\n\nHarry talked with an unknown person at an unknown time.\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n     Telephone check\n          -Testing\n\n     Repairs and cleaning\n\nAn unknown person talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time.\n\n[Conversation No. 188-14B]\n\n[See Conversation No. 130-8]\n\nBill talked with Kenneth T.[?] McLenden at an unknown time.\n\nBill talked with Nancy [Surname unknown] at an unknown time.\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\nThe unknown persons left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm, May 19, 1972.","filename":["188-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:46:05","tapeEnd":"01:09:34","participantsList":["[Unknown person(s)]","Camp David Operator","McLenden, Kenneth T."],"prevCode":"188-013","nextCode":"189-001","transcript":[{"start":0.12,"end":0.64,"text":"Good question."},{"start":30.93,"end":46.52,"text":"I'm sorry."},{"start":82.47,"end":86.94,"text":"We took the ones that I talked with, didn't we?"},{"start":86.96,"end":92.55,"text":"That's already been removed, and Doug is getting the one out of Birch right now and checking it."},{"start":92.57,"end":92.67,"text":"Okay."},{"start":92.69,"end":93.67,"text":"Now let's go check it."},{"start":228.2,"end":229.58,"text":"I just checked to find out."},{"start":230.14,"end":236.72,"text":"But if he doesn't use the basket regular, I'm going to relocate it."},{"start":236.75,"end":237.45,"text":"I don't know how reliable it is."},{"start":237.51,"end":239.05,"text":"Frontier is no problem."},{"start":266.99,"end":268.56,"text":"Can you pick a phone up in the kitchen, sir?"},{"start":269.24,"end":282.61,"text":"And I'll buzz you and let you know when I'm buzzing."},{"start":282.63,"end":283.37,"text":"This is Harry."},{"start":283.39,"end":285.35,"text":"I made you pick up a phone in the kitchen tonight."},{"start":285.37,"end":290.66,"text":"Could you connect me to it?"},{"start":290.68,"end":291.1,"text":"In the kitchen."},{"start":291.38,"end":292.66,"text":"There is a gallon there."},{"start":298.03,"end":299.73,"text":"Okay, here we go."},{"start":307.5,"end":307.88,"text":"Okay."},{"start":307.9,"end":313.8,"text":"Okay, let me try it here."},{"start":313.82,"end":318.35,"text":"I noticed a couple of seconds hold down, but that's about normal."},{"start":318.37,"end":319.19,"text":"Yeah, okay."},{"start":319.21,"end":323.53,"text":"You can be reliable now."},{"start":323.55,"end":324.68,"text":"There's just one out there."},{"start":327.41,"end":347.72,"text":"Okay, well I just wanted to make sure that was okay before I let him use it."},{"start":347.74,"end":348.17,"text":"Okay, thank you."},{"start":380.85,"end":389.83,"text":"I ain't forgotten no ventilator yet."},{"start":389.85,"end":392.52,"text":"No, I keep buying that phone."},{"start":392.54,"end":394.55,"text":"Then I leave your company off."},{"start":394.56,"end":395.25,"text":"Yeah, I ain't trying to do it all."},{"start":491.67,"end":504.53,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":504.55,"end":504.75,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":540.2,"end":544.49,"text":"Test, test, test, test."},{"start":546.03,"end":558.05,"text":"This is an audio test."},{"start":558.71,"end":561.31,"text":"I've got 271."},{"start":574.19,"end":583.17,"text":"3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1."},{"start":583.19,"end":585.45,"text":"Take another couple."},{"start":585.47,"end":586.47,"text":"3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15."},{"start":808.11,"end":810.44,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":847.44,"end":848.64,"text":"I'm sorry."},{"start":878.46,"end":880,"text":"Okay."},{"start":1038.35,"end":1040.47,"text":"I don't know, yeah."},{"start":1040.49,"end":1051.05,"text":"I think maybe he used his head to take a bath in it, but did you see the rug in that head?"},{"start":1051.67,"end":1051.77,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1051.83,"end":1053.83,"text":"Step on it."},{"start":1053.85,"end":1057.07,"text":"I wanted to see if I had a bath in that head."},{"start":1057.21,"end":1061.18,"text":"I had it, but I wanted to see if I had a bath in that head."},{"start":1061.2,"end":1061.76,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":1067.39,"end":1072.57,"text":"I don't know why he's back."},{"start":1073.63,"end":1077.13,"text":"Could have just huddled the other side."},{"start":1077.15,"end":1077.79,"text":"Couldn't figure it out that way."},{"start":1174.13,"end":1183.71,"text":"I think I might take the weekend off if you would feel that was a good time to do it."},{"start":1183.91,"end":1189.22,"text":"Because I don't get home very often."},{"start":1192.6,"end":1192.8,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1193.1,"end":1197.65,"text":"So if you don't mind, we'll go ahead and do that."},{"start":1197.81,"end":1198.15,"text":"Okay."},{"start":1198.17,"end":1199.39,"text":"Very good."},{"start":1199.41,"end":1202.77,"text":"I'd like to tell... 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