{"conversationCode":"380-032","tapeNumber":380,"conversationNumber":32,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-380-032","startDateTime":"1972-12-28T20:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-28T20:25:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Dec-1972","startTime":"3:14 PM","endDate":"28-Dec-1972","endTime":"3:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.;","description":"On December 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:14 pm to 3:25 pm. 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(President)","Price, Raymond K., Jr."],"prevCode":"380-031","nextCode":"380-033","transcript":[{"start":1.03,"end":25.21,"text":"Hello."},{"start":25.23,"end":26.81,"text":"Ray, I have read through the book now, and I have decided I can send it to you."},{"start":26.83,"end":26.93,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":26.95,"end":27.15,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":27.17,"end":27.37,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":49.19,"end":59.76,"text":"I think that as I go through this material, I have my ways of caring for them."},{"start":80.84,"end":99.17,"text":"I, uh, I think all across"},{"start":118.68,"end":121.99,"text":"I, uh, I don't think"},{"start":156.51,"end":167.03,"text":"I actually haven't done any of the very hard things in my life."},{"start":167.05,"end":168.18,"text":"But what I'd like you to do is to take the money for it."},{"start":203.83,"end":231.7,"text":"But I know this, and nobody can tell you what's in any of those."},{"start":231.72,"end":232.74,"text":"But anyway, I guess I feel that the nation probably"},{"start":261.54,"end":266.1,"text":"And as I say, right now, I'm sitting in a house that's sitting right here."},{"start":320.42,"end":336.56,"text":"I would not have expected that."},{"start":361.9,"end":376.85,"text":"So it's about the end now that I'm going to leave."},{"start":376.87,"end":377.71,"text":"So if you want to go back there, go ahead."},{"start":421.28,"end":424.46,"text":"That's what I'm saying now."},{"start":451.5,"end":452.5,"text":"Of course, I totally agree."},{"start":502.4,"end":516.66,"text":"It's a ."},{"start":535.78,"end":555.86,"text":"."},{"start":555.88,"end":555.9,"text":"."},{"start":555.92,"end":555.94,"text":"."},{"start":555.96,"end":555.98,"text":"."},{"start":559.98,"end":567.44,"text":"to the other generations, race, all the rest of it."},{"start":606.37,"end":633.78,"text":"."},{"start":633.8,"end":633.82,"text":"."},{"start":633.84,"end":633.86,"text":"."},{"start":633.88,"end":633.9,"text":"."},{"start":633.92,"end":633.94,"text":"."},{"start":634.58,"end":641.25,"text":"I guess the thought is that I don't know."},{"start":641.28,"end":641.54,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":641.56,"end":641.82,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":641.84,"end":642.1,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":642.12,"end":642.38,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":671.13,"end":690.75,"text":"Yeah, good, for those times."},{"start":690.77,"end":691.13,"text":"And then we are..."},{"start":711.72,"end":713.44,"text":"Okay, Ray."},{"start":713.46,"end":713.85,"text":"Wish me well."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with speechwriter Raymond K. Price, Jr. to discuss the transfer and handling of sensitive personal or historical documents. Nixon expressed a reflective mood regarding his impending departure from office and the broader legacy of his presidency. The conversation centered on the President's desire to entrust Price with specific materials and provided a brief moment of introspection on the challenges of his tenure.","topics":["Presidential archives","Raymond K. 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