{"conversationCode":"314-016","tapeNumber":314,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-314-016","startDateTime":"1972-01-13T22:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-13T22:26:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Jan-1972","startTime":"5:25 PM","endDate":"13-Jan-1972","endTime":"5:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;","description":"On January 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:25 pm and 5:26 pm. 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(President)","Kissinger, Henry A."],"prevCode":"314-015","nextCode":"314-017","transcript":[{"start":3.08,"end":14.13,"text":"Let me just say one thing."},{"start":14.16,"end":18.44,"text":"I thought you'd be pleased to know that Sapphire just did a hell of a good job on this."},{"start":18.46,"end":24.11,"text":"I called earlier, and you were in Bob's office, so I went over the thing."},{"start":24.12,"end":26.15,"text":"Made my suggestions, and I told him to bring it over and talk to you, and whatever you wanted to add."},{"start":26.17,"end":28.81,"text":"But he's just really, really, I think, delighted with what he's done."},{"start":28.83,"end":29.43,"text":"He's got all the nuances."},{"start":29.97,"end":46.44,"text":"There's a couple of points that he, that I told him to check with you."},{"start":46.46,"end":49.69,"text":"He does not have in there the August proposal, which I understand."},{"start":50.28,"end":53.71,"text":"Remember, in June, he had offered, he did offer a nine-month one then."},{"start":53.87,"end":55.69,"text":"I told him, I thought that was, I told him where to put it."},{"start":56.81,"end":59.97,"text":"The other thing that he did not understand, he thinks it's very important, I don't know whether it's true, but remember, when I said to you that our proposal,"},{"start":60.38,"end":69.55,"text":"link the ceasefire and the deadline."},{"start":76.64,"end":79.39,"text":"You said no, not necessarily."},{"start":80.41,"end":81.01,"text":"There's a two-phase operation."},{"start":81.03,"end":81.35,"text":"Is that correct?"},{"start":81.37,"end":81.47,"text":"Okay."},{"start":81.49,"end":82.21,"text":"You tell him what he can put in."},{"start":82.23,"end":87.16,"text":"I just told him that I think the way he's got it is taken right out of your draft."},{"start":87.18,"end":87.58,"text":"It sounds that way."},{"start":87.6,"end":88.46,"text":"Anyway, he'll bring it around to you."},{"start":90.63,"end":93.56,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":93.58,"end":107.28,"text":"Well, no, no, there's no hurry, because he's, he's now, he's, he's working on that text now, and, uh, but, but, gee, I'm talking to somebody who's going to work with him."},{"start":107.3,"end":107.56,"text":"He's so fast."},{"start":107.58,"end":111.44,"text":"You know, I told you at 3 o'clock, I'm going to have to do a few things, and I was going to do a four-minute show."},{"start":111.46,"end":112.47,"text":"You'll be pleased."},{"start":112.49,"end":113.69,"text":"Particularly, you like the person."},{"start":113.71,"end":114.57,"text":"He just marches right in at the conclusion."},{"start":114.59,"end":116.55,"text":"It means a lot of work, but he's going to work on a different song right now."},{"start":116.57,"end":116.67,"text":"Okay."},{"start":116.69,"end":116.79,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Henry Kissinger discuss the progress of a draft speech being prepared by William Safire. 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