{"conversationCode":"344-011","tapeNumber":344,"conversationNumber":11,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-344-011","startDateTime":"1972-06-21T00:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-21T00:50:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jun-1972","startTime":"8:42 PM","endDate":"20-Jun-1972","endTime":"8:50 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:42 pm to 8:50 pm. 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Yeah."},{"start":3617.38,"end":3617.54,"text":"R."},{"start":3622.74,"end":3633.59,"text":"I'd like, I'd like to, I'd like to have these, uh, after the trip, I'd like to see them in all of our markets."},{"start":3634.31,"end":3647.65,"text":"And then I'll work from our end, you know, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on."},{"start":3652.69,"end":3663.01,"text":"I might have picked it up too much."},{"start":3663.05,"end":3674.9,"text":"Why don't we try the... Yeah."},{"start":3675.1,"end":3679.82,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":3682.22,"end":3692.63,"text":"I have a feeling that just as well on the left, the whole government thing has arrived on the front line of speculation."},{"start":3708.49,"end":3709.67,"text":"I mean, I think it's a better time."},{"start":3709.71,"end":3710.43,"text":"It's a better time."},{"start":3710.45,"end":3712.36,"text":"We need to walk in and do this and so forth at this point."},{"start":3712.38,"end":3713.82,"text":"Those who do it won't do it hard for the others."},{"start":3713.88,"end":3716.26,"text":"Somehow there's a kind of resonance that you get right after doing it."},{"start":3716.36,"end":3719.98,"text":"One day, sometimes, rather than else, you get so cool before all of a sudden you're trying to do it by yourself."},{"start":3739.54,"end":3767.83,"text":"I don't want to get too serious, but I don't want to get too crowded, so let me say that you've got to have a blog for it."},{"start":3768.56,"end":3773.86,"text":"And they would have to, you know, get a reference from other agencies."},{"start":3773.96,"end":3777.07,"text":"And they would have to meet tomorrow."},{"start":3777.11,"end":3778.41,"text":"And they would have to go."},{"start":3778.47,"end":3781.15,"text":"And if they're cold, they would have to go to the hospital."},{"start":3781.31,"end":3783.03,"text":"And they would have to go to the hospital."},{"start":3783.05,"end":3786.17,"text":"And they would have to go to the hospital."},{"start":3797.28,"end":3801.99,"text":"Oh no, 10 o'clock this morning."},{"start":3802.03,"end":3804.49,"text":"That'll be the action."},{"start":3804.63,"end":3807.03,"text":"I should have."},{"start":3807.15,"end":3809.72,"text":"I should have."},{"start":3809.9,"end":3812,"text":"I should have."}],"transcriptConfidence":"high","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/344-011-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/344-011","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/344/conversation-344-011","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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