{"conversationCode":"672-001","tapeNumber":672,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-672-001","startDateTime":"1972-02-16T02:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-16T02:12:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Feb-1972","startTime":"9:02 PM","endDate":"15-Feb-1972","endTime":"9:12 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On February 15, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:02 pm and 9:12 pm. 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(“Connie”) Stuart’s office\n\nWoods left at an unknown time before 9:12 am.","filename":["672-001-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:11","tapeEnd":"00:07:22","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"671-005","nextCode":"672-002","tapeTranscriptFile":"672a.mp3,672b.mp3,672c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":44.83,"end":46.83,"text":"I sometimes mark books that might be useful."},{"start":46.87,"end":60.09,"text":"I used to go through these books and see where I turned down the pages."},{"start":60.13,"end":67.45,"text":"What you would find is sometimes I made a mark on a page here, then look on the next page, look at the places I didn't turn it down."},{"start":67.53,"end":68.55,"text":"There's more going on."},{"start":68.65,"end":72.63,"text":"And also, when I say I mark a page, I want you to take down"},{"start":74.26,"end":83.29,"text":"is to take the sentence that I've marked in the beginning of the paragraph and the next one after."},{"start":83.33,"end":85.09,"text":"Does that mean I have to do it one after the one after?"},{"start":85.17,"end":85.69,"text":"Yeah, one after."},{"start":85.71,"end":94.98,"text":"So I get to see if it is in the middle of the paragraph take the sentence that I've marked in the one before and the one after."},{"start":95.04,"end":95.94,"text":"And then mark it."},{"start":95.96,"end":97.38,"text":"Mark it the part of the paragraph."},{"start":110.25,"end":119.68,"text":"You can put, uh, you can put the book, put the top of the book there, and then take the top of the page, and then... No, no, no, they go right now."},{"start":120.4,"end":124.7,"text":"You can say, in fact, you start to see what they're trying to do with that."},{"start":125.07,"end":125.89,"text":"That's a blank."},{"start":126.33,"end":126.95,"text":"It is a blank."},{"start":127.15,"end":130.69,"text":"Go on and say, like this here, right here."},{"start":134.58,"end":135.38,"text":"Here, here it is."},{"start":135.42,"end":141.43,"text":"You can tell that this is a 50-degree web cancer."},{"start":141.45,"end":143.45,"text":"You just go right down there."},{"start":143.49,"end":149.91,"text":"Okay."},{"start":150.85,"end":153.42,"text":"Then you have chocolate."},{"start":153.48,"end":155,"text":"There you go."},{"start":155.02,"end":155.88,"text":"There you go."},{"start":161.65,"end":166.13,"text":"It doesn't make any difference."},{"start":184.24,"end":184.98,"text":"That's the way to do it."},{"start":185.02,"end":191.76,"text":"Put two sentences in each case, and three if not, serve a character."},{"start":191.78,"end":194.04,"text":"Okay, now, this book here."},{"start":197.12,"end":207.68,"text":"The targets of the class will stop about here, and then pick something."},{"start":220.15,"end":222.89,"text":"I'd like to have his heart."},{"start":223.81,"end":237.43,"text":"I'd like to have his heart covered."},{"start":237.59,"end":240.17,"text":"I'd like to have his heart covered."},{"start":240.37,"end":241.95,"text":"How do you read that?"},{"start":242.01,"end":242.81,"text":"I know."},{"start":242.91,"end":244.51,"text":"There, you can't go out there."},{"start":245.84,"end":246.06,"text":"Wow."},{"start":282.41,"end":284,"text":"Happy Valentine's Day."},{"start":310.41,"end":310.91,"text":"My pleasure."},{"start":311.25,"end":312.86,"text":"Mr. Broderick?"},{"start":312.98,"end":316.08,"text":"Uh, too much to do unless you can't tell me."},{"start":417.67,"end":418.19,"text":"Well, if you like, sir."},{"start":418.21,"end":418.59,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":45,"end":418,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to provide detailed instructions on editing and marking passages within specific books, including a copy of André Malraux's 'Anti-Memoirs.' 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