{"conversationCode":"556-009","tapeNumber":556,"conversationNumber":9,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-556-009","startDateTime":"1971-08-06T16:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-06T16:13:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Aug-1971","startTime":"12:06 PM","endDate":"6-Aug-1971","endTime":"12:13 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Whitaker, John C.; Train, Russell E.; Cahn, Robert; MacDonald, Gordon J. F.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On August 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John C. Whitaker, Russell E. Train, Robert Cahn, Gordon J. F. MacDonald, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:06 pm to 12:13 pm. 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Butterfield; press photographers were present at the beginning of\nthe meeting.\n\n     Washington Post\n\n     President's visit to New York\n          -\"No, No, Nanette\"\n          -Ruby Keeler\n          -Bobby Van\n\n     [Photograph session]\n          -General conversation\n               -Environmentalism\n                     -Clean air and water\n                          -San Clemente\n\nRose Mary Woods [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:06 pm.\n\n          -Texas, Oklahoma, Massachusetts\n\nWoods [?] left at an unknown time before 12:13 pm.\n\n     Report\n\n     Anecdote\n         -Bert Andrews\n               -New York Herald-Tribune\n               -State Department coverage\n                      -John Foster Dulles\n         -Illustration of environmentalism\n\n     Dinner\n          -Unknown person's wife\n\n     Unknown person\n\n     President’s schedule\n          -California\n\n     Council on Environmental Quality staff\n         -President's appreciation for work\n\n     Presentation of gifts by President\n          -Paperweights\n\nWhitaker, et al. left at 12:13 pm.","filename":["556a.mp3","556b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:50:22","tapeEnd":"01:58:56","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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F.","Butterfield, Alexander P.","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"556-008","nextCode":"556-010","tapeTranscriptFile":"556a.mp3,556b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":6660.24,"end":6661.16,"text":"Dwi'n meddwl y byddwn ni'n gallu gwneud hynny."},{"start":6661.18,"end":6662.24,"text":"Dwi'n meddwl y byddwn ni'n gallu gwneud hynny."},{"start":6662.26,"end":6662.92,"text":"Dwi'n meddwl y byddwn ni'n gallu."},{"start":6695.19,"end":6695.47,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":6695.49,"end":6695.77,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":6695.79,"end":6696.09,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":6730.73,"end":6731.63,"text":"Rwy'n meddwl y byddwn ni'n gallu gwneud hynny."},{"start":6762.91,"end":6763.21,"text":"Diolch yn fawr."},{"start":6763.23,"end":6763.51,"text":"Diolch yn fawr."},{"start":6824.57,"end":6824.85,"text":"Diolch yn fawr."},{"start":6845.53,"end":6845.81,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":6845.83,"end":6846.11,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":6846.13,"end":6846.41,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":6885.98,"end":6886.06,"text":"Hwyl."},{"start":6886.08,"end":6886.16,"text":"Hwyl."},{"start":6886.18,"end":6886.26,"text":"Hwyl."},{"start":6886.28,"end":6886.36,"text":"Hwyl."},{"start":6886.38,"end":6886.46,"text":"Hwyl."},{"start":6886.48,"end":6886.56,"text":"Hwyl."},{"start":6886.58,"end":6886.66,"text":"Hwyl."},{"start":6956.97,"end":6957.27,"text":"Mae'n fawr iawn."},{"start":6957.29,"end":6957.59,"text":"Mae'n fawr iawn."},{"start":6957.61,"end":6957.91,"text":"Mae'n fawr iawn."},{"start":7005.73,"end":7009.51,"text":"Rydw i wedi clywed yn y sefydliad hwn, mae'r trwm gyda'r holl adroddwyr a chyfarwyddoedd yn y Gweinidog yn hytrach na chyfarwyddo yn y Sefydliad."},{"start":7009.53,"end":7011.22,"text":"Yn hytrach na chyfarwyddo yn y Sefydliad, maen nhw'n ysgrifennu fel sefydliad."},{"start":7011.26,"end":7013.64,"text":"Nid ydych chi'n ysgrifennu fel sefydliad, ond mae'r Gweinidog yn y sefydliad yn siarad amdanyn nhw."},{"start":7013.66,"end":7014.62,"text":"Mae'r Gweinidog yn y sefydliad yn y sefydliad."},{"start":7014.64,"end":7015.56,"text":"Mae'r Gweinidog yn y sefydliad yn y sefydliad."},{"start":7015.58,"end":7016.2,"text":"Mae'r Gweinidog yn y sefydliad."},{"start":7032.48,"end":7033.17,"text":"Rwy'n meddwl y byddai'n dda iawn."},{"start":7033.19,"end":7033.47,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":7033.49,"end":7033.77,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":7033.79,"end":7034.07,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":7059.3,"end":7059.62,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":7059.64,"end":7059.92,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":7059.94,"end":7060.22,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":7060.24,"end":7060.52,"text":"Mae'n dda iawn."},{"start":7087.28,"end":7088.76,"text":"Mae'r staff proffesiynol yn gweithio gyda'r bobl."},{"start":7088.8,"end":7094.72,"text":"Mae'r gwaith yn cael ei gwerthu ac mae'n ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon ddigon"}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":6622,"end":7136,"startMethod":"tape_time","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with members of the Council on Environmental Quality, including Russell E. 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