{"conversationCode":"636-010","tapeNumber":636,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-636-010","startDateTime":"1971-12-10T22:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-10T22:38:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Dec-1971","startTime":"5:34 PM","endDate":"10-Dec-1971","endTime":"5:38 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:34 pm and 5:38 pm. 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Connally\n           -Annenberg\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 12/07/2017.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[636-010-w001]\n[Duration: 53s]\n\n     Dinner\n          -Rose Mary Woods’s attendance\n          -Time\n\n     Gifts to the President\n\f          -Standard procedures\n               -Lucy Winchester\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nWoods left at 5:38 pm.","filename":["636-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:52:49","tapeEnd":"01:55:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"636-009","nextCode":"636-011","transcript":[{"start":0.35,"end":6.96,"text":"Well, I was wondering if Bob, I've got a new chapter now, the opening at 6 o'clock."},{"start":7.02,"end":7.76,"text":"Julie's late."},{"start":7.78,"end":8.74,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":8.88,"end":10.98,"text":"She doesn't get to the end until 5.30, 5.35."},{"start":11.06,"end":15.6,"text":"So she won't be in here until probably 6, 6.30."},{"start":15.74,"end":19.13,"text":"Oh, yes, may not."},{"start":19.21,"end":24.51,"text":"I was thinking about writing that chapter."},{"start":24.59,"end":25.07,"text":"Maybe not."},{"start":25.45,"end":25.73,"text":"Probably."},{"start":26.09,"end":27.21,"text":"She didn't hear a little bit of it."},{"start":27.25,"end":27.45,"text":"Sorry."},{"start":40.6,"end":46.3,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":46.8,"end":52.2,"text":"It just looks great."},{"start":52.26,"end":53.8,"text":"That's a good change."},{"start":53.88,"end":58.51,"text":"How did you already talk to the pastor?"},{"start":60.71,"end":65.76,"text":"He must have been thrilled that you liked him."},{"start":65.8,"end":66.76,"text":"He was like a little boy."},{"start":66.8,"end":67.67,"text":"He just couldn't wait."},{"start":67.7,"end":68.71,"text":"Well, it's a great, great thing."},{"start":68.93,"end":69.43,"text":"And he knows it."},{"start":69.99,"end":71.05,"text":"It's beautiful inside."},{"start":71.07,"end":74.78,"text":"And he said, you've just been great."},{"start":75.52,"end":78.66,"text":"He just shows you now and then how to make a fine for some of them."},{"start":78.72,"end":83.52,"text":"He appreciates it and figures you're doing them a favor and you're doing you a favor."},{"start":83.54,"end":86.27,"text":"A lot of people figure that we're doing them a favor."},{"start":86.33,"end":88.55,"text":"I mean, they're doing us a favor."},{"start":88.63,"end":92.63,"text":"The government a favor by taking the job, so that helps."},{"start":92.75,"end":93.59,"text":"He feels he's proud."},{"start":93.63,"end":97.92,"text":"He's proud and he's the ambassador and he knows we stuck by him."},{"start":97.97,"end":99.9,"text":"He was under the heat, too."},{"start":102.61,"end":103.83,"text":"And we don't have plenty."},{"start":104.19,"end":104.83,"text":"We really don't."},{"start":105.49,"end":108.93,"text":"We feel like we're some, but not many."},{"start":109.15,"end":110.33,"text":"And that is ."},{"start":110.45,"end":113.54,"text":"That's the design and ."},{"start":113.72,"end":119.24,"text":"Well, what do you think, though, that we ought to do then about it?"},{"start":121.06,"end":128.29,"text":"Well, why don't you stay here and come over then there."},{"start":128.31,"end":128.91,"text":"I just planned it."},{"start":132.34,"end":140.73,"text":"We'll save some other things that won't."},{"start":140.81,"end":155.3,"text":"Most things that come through and go through are moving."},{"start":155.38,"end":156.72,"text":"I know they're open before."},{"start":161.14,"end":165.5,"text":"But what do you mean, he had a gift for you?"},{"start":165.54,"end":165.74,"text":"Yes."},{"start":166.04,"end":167.09,"text":"All right, bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary Rose Mary Woods met to coordinate administrative details, including the President's upcoming interview schedule with Jerrold Schecter and logistics regarding Julie Nixon Eisenhower's travel. 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