{"conversationCode":"469-001","tapeNumber":469,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-469-001","startDateTime":"1971-03-18T21:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-03-18T21:46:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Mar-1971","startTime":"4:42 PM","endDate":"18-Mar-1971","endTime":"4:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On March 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:42 pm to 4:46 pm. 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(“Hobe”) Lewis\n         -Elmer H. Bobst\n         -Gifts\n               -Ashtrays\n               -Matches\n                    -Bob Guthrie\n\n     Jack Drown\n          -Presence\n          -Tricia Nixon Cox [?]\n          -Schedule\n                -March 17, 1971\n                      -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s birthday\n                -Fina Sanchez\n\n     Gifts\n             -[Name unintelligible]\n                  -Birthday\n             -Jimmy Crosby\n                  -Clock\n             Barbara [Last name unknown]\n                  -Health\n\n          -Walter H. Annenberg and Leonore (Cohn) Annenberg\n               -Ashtrays\n          -Thank-you notes\n          -Walter H. Annenberg and Leonore (Cohn) Annenberg\n               -Ashtrays\n               -Importance\n\n     The President's health\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[469-001-w001]\n[Duration: 11s]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n     Rose Mary Woods’ request\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n     President’s eulogy for Whitney M. Young, Jr.\n          -A copy for review\n          -Publicity\n\n     [James] Harold Wilson\n          -A note to the President\n               -A copy for William L. 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(President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"468-020","nextCode":"469-002","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.52,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":233.55,"end":236.71,"text":"So bring me in a copy."},{"start":236.73,"end":251.53,"text":"I want to edit the little talk I made at DeMarco."},{"start":251.55,"end":252.39,"text":"Put me up and bring me in a copy of it."},{"start":252.41,"end":252.77,"text":"They put it out."},{"start":252.79,"end":253.39,"text":"I know they put it out."},{"start":253.41,"end":256.76,"text":"You know, remember the note that brought Mr. Wilson up here?"},{"start":256.78,"end":256.88,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":256.9,"end":258.66,"text":"I would like to have a zero for that."},{"start":259.65,"end":275.03,"text":"to use a sort of human interest."},{"start":277.07,"end":282.64,"text":"I just sort of question getting out a Xerox of something that personal while we're alive."},{"start":282.66,"end":282.86,"text":"I think..."},{"start":282.88,"end":285.44,"text":"I don't think we ought to be throwing off a Xerox and then I'll put them there."},{"start":285.46,"end":285.96,"text":"No, we shouldn't do that."},{"start":285.98,"end":287.14,"text":"We need to copy it down exactly as it is."},{"start":296.88,"end":296.95,"text":"you"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary Rose Mary Woods discuss the editing and reproduction of personal correspondence and remarks. 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