{"conversationCode":"422-014","tapeNumber":422,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-422-014","startDateTime":"1973-03-21T01:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-21T02:27:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Mar-1973","startTime":"8:08 PM","endDate":"20-Mar-1973","endTime":"9:27 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On March 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:08 pm and 9:27 pm. 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Dean, III [?]                     -Dead end\n            -Peter O’Donnell [?]\n            -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n                  -Money laundering\n                  -Concern\n                  -Charles W. Colson [?]\n            -Dwight L. Chapin\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n             -Consultation\n             -Haldeman, Ehrlichman\n             -Situation\n                    -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson\n             -White House staff\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 06/25/2019.\nSegment will remain closed.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[422-014-w001]\n[Duration: 2m 15s]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n       President’s conversation with Ehrlichman\n             -Congressional relations\n\n       Congressional relations\n            -Vocational rehabilitation bill\n            -House of Representatives\n            -Senate\n            -Civil rights situation [?]\n            -Moratorium\n\n       Economic and domestic policies\n            -Herbert Stein [?]\n            -George P. Shultz [?]\n            -Businessmen\n                  -Responsibility\n            -Phase II, Phase III\n            -Welfare assistance programs\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n                    -Management\n\n       President’s telephone conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n             -President’s schedule\n                    -Speech\n                    -Camp David\n                    -Florida [?]\n\n       Vietnam [?]\n             -President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n                   -Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft\n             -Haldeman [?]\n\n       Colson [?]\n\n       Press coverage [?]\n             -People’s Republic of China PRC] [?]\n\n       Visitors to the White House\n             -Pete V. Dominici [?]\n                    -Daughters\n\n       [Unintelligible name]\n             -Death\n                    -Rose Mary Woods’s report\n\n      President’s schedule [?]\n            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n                   -Speech [?]\n                   -Florida [?]\n                          -Vietnam [?]\n                                -Responsibility\n                                -US role in world [?]                                          -\nDominance\n\n       President’s schedule [?]\n             -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n             -Camp David [?]\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["422-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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