{"conversationCode":"614-010","tapeNumber":614,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-614-010","startDateTime":"1971-11-04T20:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-04T21:02:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Nov-1971","startTime":"3:55 PM","endDate":"4-Nov-1971","endTime":"4:02 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On November 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 4:02 pm. 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(President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"614-009","nextCode":"614-011","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.57,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":3.26,"end":9.75,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":9.77,"end":19.39,"text":"Rose, just in case it's raised, did anybody think to tell you about what we invited the former ambassador to India for this?"},{"start":20.45,"end":22.55,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":23.45,"end":24.01,"text":"They probably were too busy."},{"start":26.52,"end":52.57,"text":"Like Chester Cole, he should have been fired, as he was supposed to be when I was there."},{"start":52.59,"end":53.17,"text":"He's a son of a bitch, but..."},{"start":53.19,"end":53.39,"text":"But, uh..."},{"start":53.41,"end":53.65,"text":"He wasn't..."},{"start":53.67,"end":54.07,"text":"I mean, he wasn't..."},{"start":54.09,"end":54.61,"text":"I just want to know, okay?"},{"start":54.63,"end":54.73,"text":"Okay."},{"start":54.75,"end":55.59,"text":"Okay, he was considered and then rejected."},{"start":55.61,"end":55.99,"text":"Fine, I understand."},{"start":56.01,"end":56.11,"text":"Okay."},{"start":61.88,"end":80.18,"text":"See, there's a race that might go the way of the former ambassadors."},{"start":80.2,"end":80.26,"text":"No."},{"start":80.28,"end":81.65,"text":"Except for Michael, only, you know, because we do do that, you know."},{"start":81.67,"end":82.35,"text":"But he's not an ambassador, is he?"},{"start":82.37,"end":82.59,"text":"Oh, I know."},{"start":82.61,"end":82.93,"text":"There's so many."},{"start":82.95,"end":83.77,"text":"There are only two of the piece of India."},{"start":83.79,"end":84.51,"text":"One of the moguls and the other guy."},{"start":86.94,"end":91.9,"text":"Well, it's all right."},{"start":91.92,"end":92.22,"text":"It's all right."},{"start":92.24,"end":92.84,"text":"I don't think we get involved."},{"start":92.86,"end":93.25,"text":"I had a suggestion."},{"start":93.27,"end":93.37,"text":"Okay."},{"start":93.39,"end":93.59,"text":"All right."},{"start":93.61,"end":93.81,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, discuss the guest list for an upcoming state dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Nixon expresses strong personal distaste for former U.S. ambassadors to India, specifically Chester Bowles and John Kenneth Galbraith, while confirming that these individuals were excluded from the invitation list. 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