{"conversationCode":"233-013","tapeNumber":233,"conversationNumber":13,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-233-013","startDateTime":"1972-12-06T20:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-06T20:31:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Dec-1972","startTime":"3:25 PM","endDate":"6-Dec-1972","endTime":"3:31 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon;","description":"On December 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 3:25 pm to 3:31 pm. 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(President)","Cox, Tricia Nixon"],"prevCode":"233-012","nextCode":"233-014","transcript":[{"start":1.2,"end":26.55,"text":"Well, I know it's a terrible experience to wait for that bar."},{"start":26.57,"end":29.47,"text":"Yeah, it's all done now."},{"start":29.57,"end":29.79,"text":"It's great."},{"start":29.89,"end":30.39,"text":"Did Elaine get in?"},{"start":38.74,"end":41.34,"text":"Oh, I see."},{"start":41.36,"end":41.56,"text":"All right."},{"start":102.11,"end":126.53,"text":"Yeah, it's been that kind of a rainy, but I've been inside all day, so it doesn't make much difference."},{"start":126.55,"end":127.81,"text":"No, but I might go on that back."},{"start":127.95,"end":129.94,"text":"Four or five o'clock."},{"start":129.96,"end":130.1,"text":"Get it?"},{"start":130.12,"end":132.1,"text":"Well, anyway, anyway, you will see and you'll all have a good time, okay?"},{"start":132.72,"end":137.99,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":139.09,"end":151.78,"text":"I hope I... Oh, yeah, I... Yeah."},{"start":151.8,"end":155.11,"text":"Sure, you're there."},{"start":155.19,"end":159.89,"text":"The time I think they're working on is Sunday."},{"start":159.91,"end":161.17,"text":"The inauguration is Saturday."},{"start":161.69,"end":171.29,"text":"I mean, the church service Sunday morning where we have, that's where we have these."},{"start":171.31,"end":172.61,"text":"And then Sunday afternoon, we're saving for the banner reception."},{"start":172.63,"end":181.24,"text":"That'll be the whole, everybody, the whole bunch Saturday to Sunday afternoon."},{"start":181.26,"end":188.37,"text":"I tell you, we do have to turn those up for photographs sometimes."},{"start":188.39,"end":190.21,"text":"They, you see, we always use them now."},{"start":190.23,"end":191.41,"text":"It's always all come down."},{"start":191.97,"end":195.01,"text":"And now and then, they turn the lights up for pictures."},{"start":195.03,"end":199.96,"text":"You can check it out with Ollie, whether he thinks they have to have them, but that is, that's what they do."},{"start":200.1,"end":206.61,"text":"I know whenever, whenever they're gonna have the press photos or so forth, they just turn the lights up and they just send it."},{"start":206.63,"end":209.3,"text":"If they leave, they turn it down."},{"start":209.32,"end":215.15,"text":"And if they, but they only do it for that one instant, and then they turn it down again."},{"start":215.17,"end":217.39,"text":"So it's the way it works."},{"start":217.41,"end":218.21,"text":"The..."},{"start":219.83,"end":222.59,"text":"Stay here tomorrow."},{"start":222.67,"end":246.39,"text":"Today is Wednesday, Wednesday, Thursday."},{"start":246.74,"end":251.47,"text":"No hurry, no hurry, no hurry."},{"start":251.49,"end":265.44,"text":"Well, I don't really, I just, you know, it won't make much difference, I don't think, and they seem to have, it's really good news that he passed the bar."},{"start":265.46,"end":268.99,"text":"It's a great thing."},{"start":269.01,"end":271.43,"text":"Getting all ready for their trip."},{"start":271.45,"end":273.27,"text":"That's really good."},{"start":273.29,"end":273.93,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, engage in a brief, informal check-in at Camp David to discuss personal and logistical matters. The conversation centers on congratulating Tricia’s husband, Edward Cox, for passing the bar exam and coordinating preliminary details regarding the upcoming second presidential inauguration. 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