{"conversationCode":"531-003","tapeNumber":531,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-531-003","startDateTime":"1971-06-28T20:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-28T20:39:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Jun-1971","startTime":"4:35 PM","endDate":"28-Jun-1971","endTime":"4:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Dart, Jane; Ehrlichman, John D.; White House photographer;","description":"On June 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Jane Dart, John D. Ehrlichman, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:35 pm to 4:39 pm. 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Eisenhower[?]\n\nDart and Ehrlichman left at 4:39 pm.","filename":["531-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:06:00","tapeEnd":"00:09:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Dart, Jane","Ehrlichman, John D.","White House photographer","Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Dart, Jane","Ehrlichman, John D.","White House photographer"],"prevCode":"531-002","nextCode":"531-004","transcript":[{"start":8.16,"end":23.89,"text":"Yeah, it seems that I don't see her when she's leaving."},{"start":23.91,"end":24.41,"text":"They're coming and going."},{"start":24.43,"end":24.67,"text":"Yeah, right."},{"start":24.69,"end":25.69,"text":"Well, they're very close to the table right there."},{"start":25.71,"end":26.31,"text":"Well, I'll never see her."},{"start":26.33,"end":26.69,"text":"Yeah, she's right."},{"start":26.71,"end":27.61,"text":"That was a long time ago."},{"start":27.63,"end":28.11,"text":"Is that a picture of us?"},{"start":28.13,"end":28.23,"text":"Sure."},{"start":28.25,"end":28.45,"text":"All right."},{"start":28.47,"end":28.77,"text":"All right."},{"start":46.62,"end":60.32,"text":"All right, good."},{"start":60.34,"end":60.78,"text":"We're going to go out."},{"start":60.8,"end":61.24,"text":"We're going to go out."},{"start":61.26,"end":61.78,"text":"Where are you going to go?"},{"start":61.8,"end":62.48,"text":"Well, I'm going to go to New York."},{"start":62.5,"end":63.06,"text":"I'm going to go to New York."},{"start":63.04,"end":89.12,"text":"She knows so much, and I'd like to be an authority on a lot of things."},{"start":89.14,"end":89.38,"text":"Yes, she is."},{"start":89.4,"end":89.54,"text":"She is."},{"start":89.56,"end":89.7,"text":"She is."},{"start":89.72,"end":89.92,"text":"Stay here."},{"start":89.94,"end":90.12,"text":"Oh, sure."},{"start":90.14,"end":90.34,"text":"Oh, I see."},{"start":90.36,"end":90.58,"text":"Yeah, yeah."},{"start":90.6,"end":91.22,"text":"Well, you learn harder than me."},{"start":91.24,"end":91.84,"text":"Don't think this is a country."},{"start":91.86,"end":92.18,"text":"That's so crazy."},{"start":92.2,"end":92.42,"text":"Get around."},{"start":92.44,"end":92.66,"text":"Take a bus."},{"start":95.88,"end":124.64,"text":"I remember the times when I was up to your house on the hill and I noticed that the Justice"},{"start":125.23,"end":149.48,"text":"You know, I always picture I have a pen, and then I'll see paralyzed, or the blood, just before that bottle springs for the last time."},{"start":149.78,"end":155.88,"text":"Never stop."},{"start":155.9,"end":157.84,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":157.87,"end":159.09,"text":"Goodbye."},{"start":159.75,"end":160.91,"text":"I appreciate your time."},{"start":161.03,"end":162.12,"text":"Thank you very much."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Jane Dart and John D. Ehrlichman, accompanied briefly by a White House photographer, for a social visit to arrange a photograph and exchange gifts. The conversation included brief discussions regarding Dart’s upcoming travel plans to New York and the health and activities of her husband, Justin W. Dart. The meeting concluded cordially after the participants finalized their photographic arrangements.","topics":["Social visit","Photography","Justin W. 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