{"conversationCode":"288-017","tapeNumber":288,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-288-017","startDateTime":"1971-10-12T14:32:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-12T15:19:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Oct-1971","startTime":"10:32 AM","endDate":"12-Oct-1971","endTime":"11:19 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On October 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:32 am and 11:19 am. 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(\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"288-016","nextCode":"288-018","tapeTranscriptFile":"288a.mp3","transcript":[{"start":3701.46,"end":3706.18,"text":"Bob Henry said he was going to Chicago tomorrow to attend that person's dinner."},{"start":3706.24,"end":3714.96,"text":"Maybe he was talking about something built for tomorrow night."},{"start":3714.98,"end":3716.59,"text":"I don't know if he's true."},{"start":3716.72,"end":3720.67,"text":"It's tomorrow night."},{"start":3720.69,"end":3721.23,"text":"I'll try it out there."},{"start":3722.52,"end":3726.87,"text":"Well, if you want to check it out, if the damn thing is tomorrow, I would have to do it perhaps late this afternoon."},{"start":3726.89,"end":3735.03,"text":"Because he says this is a big dinner and several senators are going out and all that sort of thing."},{"start":3735.07,"end":3750,"text":"So it may be that your date, I would gather, that you have to buy something considerably later than a week or so."},{"start":3750.02,"end":3750.24,"text":"I, uh..."},{"start":3751.5,"end":3756.19,"text":"Is this a situation where, who agrees with the president?"},{"start":3759.71,"end":3768.81,"text":"Why are we doing this now?"},{"start":3769.01,"end":3780.62,"text":"I just think, well, maybe it helps us a little more, but the only point is, I just don't know how to do the others, I mean, except to say that"},{"start":3781.65,"end":3781.87,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":3783.57,"end":3785.63,"text":"Technically, we just haven't the capability."},{"start":3785.65,"end":3789.92,"text":"And so that they all feel they're getting the same thing."},{"start":3790.18,"end":3796.73,"text":"But if you get that word around, they're going to read it to others, you know, so they won't block these words."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":3686,"end":3842,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and H. 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