{"conversationCode":"331-015","tapeNumber":331,"conversationNumber":15,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-331-015","startDateTime":"1972-04-19T14:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-19T15:11:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Apr-1972","startTime":"9:55 AM","endDate":"19-Apr-1972","endTime":"10:11 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On April 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 10:11 am. 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(President)"],"prevCode":"331-014","nextCode":"331-016","transcript":[{"start":0.28,"end":19.69,"text":"This is a private memorandum for the file to be transcribed."},{"start":19.71,"end":20.77,"text":"Dictated with your morning, evening, or late evening."},{"start":20.8,"end":20.96,"text":"The O.B."},{"start":20.98,"end":21.18,"text":"is $97.00."},{"start":21.2,"end":21.82,"text":"I'm going to go out for dinner."},{"start":21.84,"end":22.34,"text":"This is quite remarkable."},{"start":22.36,"end":22.7,"text":"This is the page."},{"start":22.72,"end":22.82,"text":"Life."},{"start":22.84,"end":23.12,"text":"Black holiday."},{"start":53.29,"end":74.78,"text":"They were great men."},{"start":74.8,"end":75.2,"text":"They were great men."},{"start":75.22,"end":75.62,"text":"They were great men."},{"start":75.64,"end":76.04,"text":"They were great men."},{"start":76.06,"end":76.47,"text":"They were great men."},{"start":76.48,"end":76.89,"text":"They were great men."},{"start":76.91,"end":77.31,"text":"They were great men."},{"start":77.33,"end":77.73,"text":"They were great men."},{"start":78.35,"end":107.68,"text":"... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":109.72,"end":134.88,"text":"The second form was education for me."},{"start":140.31,"end":165.73,"text":"... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":188.81,"end":196.11,"text":"I called her a madman."},{"start":196.13,"end":196.46,"text":"Last night, too."},{"start":196.47,"end":197.44,"text":"I told you about the fact that I'm sorry, but..."},{"start":224.94,"end":254.54,"text":"I had both before that."},{"start":262.47,"end":288.96,"text":"I wish there was more time for the calls, but... Perhaps we'll... What?"},{"start":288.98,"end":290.38,"text":"All the gaffers that we've got, we're gonna let them go one more time."},{"start":304.71,"end":331.22,"text":"It was a beautiful day."},{"start":334.29,"end":355.22,"text":"That's it."},{"start":376.82,"end":377.19,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon recorded a brief, informal memorandum for the file, reflecting on recent social interactions and miscellaneous administrative observations. The President commented on various personal subjects, including individuals he encountered, a recent excursion on the Sequoia, and his daughter Tricia Nixon Cox. 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