{"conversationCode":"566-015","tapeNumber":566,"conversationNumber":15,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-566-015","startDateTime":"1971-08-17T19:23:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-17T19:26:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Aug-1971","startTime":"3:23 PM","endDate":"17-Aug-1971","endTime":"3:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On August 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:23 pm to 3:26 pm. 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We'll have to see in November, Mr. President."},{"start":11920.93,"end":11927.32,"text":"You may want to have just a two-month withdrawal scheduled if the negotiations are closed to succeeding."},{"start":11928.8,"end":11929.1,"text":"But we..."},{"start":11929.16,"end":11934.72,"text":"Instead of announcing the whole thing, just announce a two-month increment to keep the negotiations going, but we don't have to decide."},{"start":11934.8,"end":11935.28,"text":"Well, we'll see later."},{"start":11935.32,"end":11936.72,"text":"You're not going to complain now?"},{"start":11936.74,"end":11939.08,"text":"No, Mr. President."},{"start":11954.51,"end":11954.83,"text":"Yeah, that's fine."},{"start":11954.85,"end":11955.55,"text":"I'm out there to see other people."},{"start":11987.45,"end":11988.44,"text":"I think that's still going to happen all the time."},{"start":12023.91,"end":12024.32,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":12024.58,"end":12025.04,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":12025.44,"end":12027.78,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":12027.82,"end":12028.54,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":12028.58,"end":12028.82,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":12166.38,"end":12167.34,"text":"Did you guys have an explanation at all?"},{"start":12167.36,"end":12169.05,"text":"They thought they had to prove that they could pick up."},{"start":12169.07,"end":12169.79,"text":"They didn't change even a word."},{"start":12169.81,"end":12171.21,"text":"So we're trying to find out how many years later they have."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":11914,"end":12241,"startMethod":"tape_time","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to discuss personal administrative matters, including the handling of a note for Chicago White Sox announcer Bob Elston and his family. 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