{"conversationCode":"633-001","tapeNumber":633,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-633-001","startDateTime":"1971-12-09T14:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-09T14:11:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Dec-1971","startTime":"9:05 AM","endDate":"9-Dec-1971","endTime":"9:11 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; White House operator;","description":"On December 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:05 am to 9:11 am. 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It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 07/15/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[633-001-w001]\n[Duration: 31s]\n\n     John Patrick Cooley [?]\n          -Letter\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n**************************************************************************\n\n     Elmer H. Bobst\n         -Letter\n\n     The President's call to Mrs. Bunche\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:05 am and\n9:11 am.\n\n[Conversation No. 633-1A]\n\n[See Conversation No. 16-65]\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n**************************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 07/15/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[633-001-w002]\n[Duration: 1m 24s]\n\n     Unknown person’s [Ruth H. Bunche] [?] daughter\n\n**************************************************************************\n\n     Bust\n            -Winston S. Churchill\n                 -To be brought to the President\n                       -Location\n            -Abraham Lincoln\n            -John F. Kennedy\n                 -Comparisons\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nWoods left at 9:11 am.","filename":["633-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:13","tapeEnd":"00:07:38","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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