{"conversationCode":"211-012","tapeNumber":211,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-211-012","startDateTime":"1972-09-17T14:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-09-17T15:27:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Sep-1972","startTime":"10:25 AM","endDate":"17-Sep-1972","endTime":"11:27 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On September 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:25 am and 11:27 am. 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(President)"],"prevCode":"211-011","nextCode":"211-013","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon dictated a memorandum to H.R. Haldeman regarding the scheduling of campaign tours for Patricia and Julie Nixon. He proposed shifting their focus from \"heavy-media areas\" to Southern, Border, and mountain states, including smaller towns in larger states and locations previously unvisited by national celebrities, to provide them a \"rest\" from intense press scrutiny.","topics":["Campaign scheduling","Patricia Nixon","Julie Nixon","H.R. 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With regard to scheduling, Patricia and Julie would like very much to work in tours to Southern and Border States and also to mountain states at this time. Period."},{"start":16,"end":35,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"I think we have been throwing them into the heavy-media areas long enough and while of course we should not rule out such areas totally, and particularly not rule them out for the last two weeks,"},{"start":35,"end":50,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"it might be well to give them a rest, open paren, and in the case of the sharpies in the press corps, open paren, in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia,"},{"start":50,"end":57,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"and Los Angeles, close paren, and schedule them into"},{"start":57,"end":77,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"places like South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and others. The smaller towns in larger states, like Texas,"},{"start":77,"end":93,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"where they will be particularly seen. Same can be said of Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho,"},{"start":93,"end":110.6,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"and all other states of that type. Also, I would, particular emphasis on their schedules to be on towns that no national celebrity has visited before. That's the end of the tape."}],"transcriptCreatedAt":"2026-10-28T13:32:08.151Z","transcriptModel":"google/gemini-3.8-flash","transcriptSource":"audio-llm","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/211-012-nara.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/211-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/211/conversation-211-012","catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/648453176","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}