{"conversationCode":"473-016","tapeNumber":473,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-473-016","startDateTime":"1971-03-25T21:56:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-03-25T22:00:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Mar-1971","startTime":"4:56 PM","endDate":"25-Mar-1971","endTime":"5:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Fauntroy, Walter E.; Fauntroy, Dorothy (Simms); Fauntroy, Marvin K.; MacGregor, Clark; Brown, Robert J.;","description":"On March 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Walter E. Fauntroy, Dorothy (Simms) Fauntroy, Marvin K. Fauntroy, Clark MacGregor, and Robert J. Brown met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:56 pm and 5:00 pm. 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Fauntroy\n          -Doctorate\n\n     Presidential golf balls\n\nThe President, et al. left at 5:00 pm","filename":["473-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:51:41","tapeEnd":"04:57:26","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Fauntroy, Walter E.","Fauntroy, Dorothy (Simms)","Fauntroy, Marvin K.","MacGregor, Clark","Brown, Robert J."],"prevCode":"473-015","nextCode":"473-017","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":23.01,"text":"Well, here are the winners."},{"start":23.03,"end":23.27,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":23.29,"end":23.69,"text":"I'm glad to see you."},{"start":23.71,"end":24.19,"text":"I see your button there."},{"start":24.21,"end":24.79,"text":"I don't know what he was for."},{"start":24.81,"end":25.05,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":25.07,"end":25.47,"text":"I'm glad to see you."},{"start":25.49,"end":26.23,"text":"We'll get in our white-outs and talk."},{"start":26.25,"end":26.73,"text":"We'll come on over here."},{"start":26.75,"end":27.69,"text":"Stand right up here by the newsstands in front."},{"start":27.71,"end":28.11,"text":"I'm glad to see you."},{"start":28.09,"end":39.89,"text":"Thank you very good."},{"start":39.91,"end":41.5,"text":"So yours are my dog."},{"start":46.37,"end":68.86,"text":"Well, I must say, it was one of the lightest ones."},{"start":68.88,"end":69.12,"text":"Yes, it was."},{"start":69.14,"end":69.78,"text":"I think you got 57% of the vote."},{"start":69.8,"end":69.98,"text":"Yeah, 59."},{"start":70,"end":70.06,"text":"59?"},{"start":70.08,"end":70.18,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":70.2,"end":71,"text":"Yeah, you once got 59, but not recently."},{"start":71.02,"end":71.28,"text":"No, I didn't."},{"start":71.3,"end":72.26,"text":"No, I didn't, but it was quite a while, I guess."},{"start":72.28,"end":72.86,"text":"What did you guys post there?"},{"start":72.88,"end":73.06,"text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":73.08,"end":73.98,"text":"Yeah, would you like to go on the red button?"},{"start":74,"end":74.19,"text":"Oh, sure."},{"start":74.2,"end":74.93,"text":"Yeah, I figured I'd have to do that."},{"start":74.95,"end":75.25,"text":"Right in there."},{"start":75.27,"end":75.57,"text":"Right in there."},{"start":76,"end":89.18,"text":"That's Marge."},{"start":89.38,"end":89.96,"text":"Your name is Marge?"},{"start":89.98,"end":90.4,"text":"Yes, that's right."},{"start":90.42,"end":91.97,"text":"I'm a Christian, but I'm out of that."},{"start":91.98,"end":93.37,"text":"Yeah, you'll run into that."},{"start":95.13,"end":98.43,"text":"I always wanted a congressman."},{"start":98.45,"end":99.14,"text":"Don't."},{"start":99.16,"end":99.96,"text":"You never brought your sisters, did you?"},{"start":99.98,"end":100.68,"text":"From U.S.?"},{"start":101.96,"end":124.79,"text":"Well, hey, that makes you very special."},{"start":124.81,"end":125.43,"text":"There's the back, you see that?"},{"start":125.45,"end":126.27,"text":"I'm going to give you a couple of these."},{"start":126.29,"end":127.36,"text":"You've got a presidential cup, an extravaganza light."},{"start":127.38,"end":128,"text":"You've got a presidential seal."},{"start":135.52,"end":145.19,"text":"I don't think there's a part that says Paul."},{"start":148.15,"end":150.28,"text":"He's a golfer, is he?"},{"start":150.72,"end":152.8,"text":"Paul, is it Paul?"},{"start":152.82,"end":153.32,"text":"Yeah, that's right, Paul."},{"start":153.34,"end":153.78,"text":"You want to call Paul?"},{"start":153.8,"end":154.08,"text":"He's a golfer."},{"start":154.1,"end":154.32,"text":"Good."},{"start":154.76,"end":156.4,"text":"He's a golfer."},{"start":156.42,"end":156.7,"text":"He's a golfer."},{"start":157.93,"end":161.01,"text":"Now we've got to get into the meeting, so I'm just going to order in back here."},{"start":161.03,"end":161.37,"text":"I call backwards."},{"start":161.39,"end":162.27,"text":"You've got one of those PhD."},{"start":162.25,"end":174.54,"text":"I'm going to be watching this person down in my pocket, too."},{"start":174.56,"end":174.76,"text":"All right."},{"start":174.78,"end":176.05,"text":"That is a sealed person on a signature, so that's real special."},{"start":176.07,"end":176.33,"text":"Go on, go on."},{"start":178,"end":190.78,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":190.8,"end":191.12,"text":"I appreciate it."},{"start":191.14,"end":192.16,"text":"I can listen inside as soon as you're all lined up."},{"start":192.18,"end":192.54,"text":"Thank you so much."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon hosted Reverend Walter E. 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