{"conversationCode":"405-001","tapeNumber":405,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-405-001","startDateTime":"1973-01-25T12:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-25T13:38:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Jan-1973","startTime":"7:54 AM","endDate":"25-Jan-1973","endTime":"8:38 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On January 25, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 7:54 am and 8:38 am. 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(“Bob”) Haldeman [?]\n\n[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]\n*****************************************************************","filename":["405-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"404-027","nextCode":"405-002","transcript":[{"start":0.37,"end":26.46,"text":"um um"},{"start":32.18,"end":49.62,"text":"It's been a while."},{"start":49.64,"end":50,"text":"It's been a while."},{"start":50.02,"end":50.38,"text":"It's been a while."},{"start":50.4,"end":50.76,"text":"It's been a while."},{"start":59.26,"end":84.87,"text":"I don't know if that was the right way to do it."},{"start":84.89,"end":85.85,"text":"I don't know if that was the right way to do it."},{"start":85.87,"end":86.83,"text":"I don't know if that was the right way to do it."},{"start":86.86,"end":87.82,"text":"I don't know if that was the right way to do it."},{"start":87.84,"end":88.8,"text":"I don't know if that was the right way to do it."},{"start":90.38,"end":118.56,"text":"... ... ... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":125.51,"end":132.37,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":168.12,"end":197.83,"text":"I think after some of the races we've done so far, I think we're pretty sure"},{"start":208.25,"end":224.16,"text":"I don't know what's going on."},{"start":224.18,"end":224.76,"text":"I don't know what's going on."},{"start":239.06,"end":266.08,"text":"I was always a huge fan of taking pictures of my friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends and friends."},{"start":278.74,"end":302.92,"text":"Uh, is there a spin line though?"},{"start":341.51,"end":352,"text":"Whether we understand it or we aren't, it doesn't matter."},{"start":370.56,"end":375.6,"text":"... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":403.58,"end":413.22,"text":"Go along with it, buddy."},{"start":446.58,"end":448.85,"text":"."},{"start":448.87,"end":448.89,"text":"."},{"start":468.7,"end":495.45,"text":"."},{"start":495.48,"end":495.5,"text":"."},{"start":495.51,"end":495.54,"text":"."},{"start":497.76,"end":527.45,"text":"... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":534.65,"end":561.54,"text":"Very close."},{"start":561.56,"end":563.12,"text":"I have confidence that the turbine will do a good job, but not on a good time."},{"start":568.01,"end":569.16,"text":"Oh, my God."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon dictated a memorandum for his files to document internal reflections regarding the death of former President Lyndon B. 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