{"conversationCode":"627-014","tapeNumber":627,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-627-014","startDateTime":"1971-12-01T18:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-01T18:22:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:17 PM","endDate":"1-Dec-1971","endTime":"1:22 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On December 1, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:17 pm and 1:22 pm. 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Flanigan\n          -Television\n                -Interview [?]\n          -John Roth [?]\n\nThe President, Butterfield and Woods left at 1:22 pm.","filename":["627-014-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:41:06","tapeEnd":"02:49:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P.","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"627-013","nextCode":"628-001","tapeTranscriptFile":"627a.mp3,627b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":9805.97,"end":9806.87,"text":"Can I talk to one man for 30 minutes?"},{"start":9806.89,"end":9807.01,"text":"Sure."},{"start":9807.03,"end":9807.89,"text":"I know you don't want to talk to me."},{"start":9807.91,"end":9808.75,"text":"I'm telling you, it's a bad indicator."},{"start":9808.77,"end":9809.29,"text":"I mean, it's hard."},{"start":9809.35,"end":9809.71,"text":"It's so hard."},{"start":9809.73,"end":9811.21,"text":"If you want me to do this, you don't have to do it."},{"start":9811.25,"end":9812.05,"text":"I'm telling you, it's a bad indicator."},{"start":9812.07,"end":9812.91,"text":"I'm telling you, it's a bad indicator."},{"start":9812.93,"end":9813.77,"text":"I'm telling you, it's a bad indicator."},{"start":9844.53,"end":9845.51,"text":"Let's get one of these through."},{"start":9872.33,"end":9875.34,"text":"Then we have 10 people who are on it, and 80 of us who are academic type."},{"start":9875.36,"end":9877.6,"text":"Do you want a few of those to fit?"},{"start":9877.8,"end":9880.96,"text":"Yeah, that's about a couple dollars."},{"start":9881.04,"end":9882.74,"text":"We've had several of these."},{"start":9884.18,"end":9892.46,"text":"Yeah, we've had a thousand."},{"start":9892.54,"end":9894.82,"text":"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten."},{"start":9894.84,"end":9898.48,"text":"Yeah, we've had thousands."},{"start":9898.56,"end":9899.62,"text":"One thousand dollars."},{"start":9903.89,"end":9906.39,"text":"Now, when he came in, he said that he had been negotiating with the rich people about Canadian art."},{"start":9906.43,"end":9909.38,"text":"And he had conceded to these people because they had been, not too much on cash, but they had been negotiating with Canadian art."},{"start":9909.4,"end":9910.4,"text":"Now, do you want to hear this one right back?"},{"start":9936.6,"end":9938.1,"text":"All right, and what about the TV?"},{"start":9938.12,"end":9938.28,"text":"No."},{"start":9938.3,"end":9938.48,"text":"Okay."},{"start":9938.6,"end":9939.04,"text":"I'll let you know."},{"start":9939.12,"end":9939.96,"text":"I'm going to be such a solider."},{"start":9939.98,"end":9940.9,"text":"Well, they'll be perfect."},{"start":9941.06,"end":9941.56,"text":"I want this."},{"start":9941.58,"end":9943.44,"text":"Do you have the money?"},{"start":9943.48,"end":9944.42,"text":"Well, not at the moment."},{"start":9944.44,"end":9945.28,"text":"Do you have the money?"},{"start":9945.38,"end":9945.68,"text":"All right."},{"start":9945.82,"end":9946.22,"text":"I'll let you know."},{"start":9946.24,"end":9946.64,"text":"I'll let you know."},{"start":9946.74,"end":9947.16,"text":"I'll let you know."},{"start":9947.22,"end":9947.6,"text":"I'll let you know."},{"start":9969.54,"end":9972.6,"text":"All right, the others that were identified today are people who are working on a few other things."},{"start":9992.92,"end":9993.2,"text":"I don't think"},{"start":10022.1,"end":10023.13,"text":"And I didn't know if you wanted to watch it."},{"start":10047.51,"end":10049.21,"text":"What about taking the box?"},{"start":10049.25,"end":10050.23,"text":"Leave all the good stuff out."},{"start":10070.18,"end":10076.57,"text":"When it's not small enough, there's a lot of people who have to get people in there that don't want them."},{"start":10076.69,"end":10077.03,"text":"That's right."},{"start":10077.07,"end":10081.15,"text":"Yeah, have to sit and be with them."},{"start":10081.17,"end":10081.82,"text":"Have a good picture."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":9806,"end":10186,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander P. 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