{"conversationCode":"705-011","tapeNumber":705,"conversationNumber":11,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-705-011","startDateTime":"1972-04-10T17:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-10T17:38:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Apr-1972","startTime":"12:25 PM","endDate":"10-Apr-1972","endTime":"12:38 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Barker, Robert W.; Booth, Arch N.; Burch, William N.; Champion, George, Jr.; Lord, Mary Pillsbury; Low, James P.; Marks, Leonard H.; Marks, Herbert E.; Marriott, J. Willard; Marriott, Alice (Sheets); McManus, William J.; Oäó»Malley, Charles S., Jr.; Simons, A. Pollard; Swim, Katherine (Merrill); Washington, Walter E.; Yeager, C. Robert; Cosgrove, John P.; Kelly, John B., Jr.; Hoopes, David C.; White House photographer;","description":"On April 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Robert W. Barker, Arch N. Booth, William N. Burch, George Champion, Jr., Mary Pillsbury Lord, James P. Low, Leonard H. Marks, Herbert E. Marks, J. Willard Marriott, Alice (Sheets) Marriott, William J. McManus, Charles S. O???Malley, Jr., A. Pollard Simons, Katherine (Merrill) Swim, Walter E. Washington, C. Robert Yeager, John P. Cosgrove, John B. Kelly, Jr., David C. Hoopes, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:25 pm to 12:38 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 705-011 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 705-11\n\nDate: April 10, 1972\nTime: 12:25 pm - 12:38 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Robert W. Barker, Arch N. Booth, William N. Burch, George Champion,\nJr., Mary Pillsbury Lord, James P. Low, Leonard H. Marks, Herbert E. Marks, J. Willard\nMarriott, Alice (Sheets) Marriott, William J. McManus, Charles S. O'Malley, Jr., A. Pollard\n\fSimons, Katherine (Merrill) Swim, Walter E. Washington, C. Robert Yeager, John P. Cosgrove,\nJohn B. Kelly and David C. Hoopes; the White House photographer was present at the beginning\nof the meeting.\n\n     Introductions and greetings\n\n     Unknown team\n\n     News report\n\n     Photographs\n\n     Dudley Swim\n\n     Marriott\n\n     [General discussion]\n\n     Group photograph\n         -Arrangements\n\n     Golf\n            -Partner\n                  -Champion\n\n     Filming of event\n\n     Honor America Day\n         -Recognition\n         -Need for ceremonies\n         -Non-partisanship\n         -Film\n               -Distribution\n               -The President's appearance\n                     -Twenty-sixth amendment\n\n     The President's administration\n          -Washington, DC crime rates\n               -Decline\n                      -Walter Washington\n                      -Baseball club [Washington Senators]\n                           -Congress\n\n     George E. Allen\n          -Stadium seating\n\n     Gifts from the People's Republic of China [PRC]\n           -Trees\n                -Growing conditions\n           -Pandas\n                -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon\n\f                 -Zoos\n                      -San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, St. Louis and Washington\n\n     Presidential gifts\n           -Women\n           -Golf balls\n                -The President’ inscription\n\n     Arbor Day\n          -Mrs. Nixon\n\n     Golf\n            -Champion\n\n     The President's trip to Florida\n\n     Golf\n\nBarker et al left at 12:38 pm.","filename":["705-011.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:11:38","tapeEnd":"03:27:22","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Barker, Robert W.","Booth, Arch N.","Burch, William N.","Champion, George, Jr.","Lord, Mary Pillsbury","Low, James P.","Marks, Leonard H.","Marks, Herbert E.","Marriott, J. 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Robert","Cosgrove, John P.","Kelly, John B., Jr.","Hoopes, David C.","White House photographer"],"prevCode":"705-010","nextCode":"705-012","transcript":[{"start":4.69,"end":8.49,"text":"Hello, how are you?"},{"start":24.18,"end":25.57,"text":"or the year after that."},{"start":40.58,"end":41.82,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":65.69,"end":66.97,"text":"uh... uh... uh..."},{"start":91.3,"end":92.66,"text":"I'm so glad to see you."},{"start":92.72,"end":95.72,"text":"I'm sorry to have you here, but we're proud of you over here."},{"start":95.98,"end":96.94,"text":"You're a great man."},{"start":96.98,"end":98.14,"text":"You're strong."},{"start":98.16,"end":98.7,"text":"You're strong."},{"start":98.72,"end":100.2,"text":"I believe deeply in my friends."},{"start":101.1,"end":101.88,"text":"I'm always a person."},{"start":102,"end":106.43,"text":"Do you care a lot about me?"},{"start":142.71,"end":143.11,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":188.88,"end":189.06,"text":"All right."},{"start":214.71,"end":216.73,"text":"Oh, George Howard has it here."},{"start":216.81,"end":219.43,"text":"It was waiting for you to see it."},{"start":219.53,"end":219.85,"text":"I know."},{"start":219.91,"end":222.45,"text":"I used to say, can you click off of it and everything?"},{"start":222.49,"end":223.83,"text":"There you go."},{"start":223.85,"end":224.29,"text":"I got it."},{"start":224.31,"end":224.65,"text":"I got it."},{"start":224.79,"end":225.19,"text":"I got it."},{"start":225.21,"end":225.43,"text":"I got it."},{"start":225.51,"end":226.01,"text":"I got it."},{"start":236.51,"end":236.71,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":255.32,"end":255.5,"text":"All right."},{"start":275.74,"end":275.92,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":290.87,"end":290.97,"text":"Right."},{"start":290.99,"end":291.09,"text":"Right."},{"start":328.61,"end":331.4,"text":"Did you see what happened?"},{"start":345.92,"end":349.48,"text":"Thank you for helping me out."},{"start":360.65,"end":362.89,"text":"Now that's a good one."},{"start":363.13,"end":365.72,"text":"I want a real picture too."},{"start":375.99,"end":379.57,"text":"No, we won't put your prison thing across."},{"start":379.83,"end":384.92,"text":"Bill, you and I will sit in the middle here and don't lock doors."},{"start":385,"end":388.91,"text":"We'll be right back."},{"start":390.75,"end":403.92,"text":"if you ever play golf never had champions apart and he's my partner at least a dozen times did we ever win"},{"start":410.04,"end":414.49,"text":"I'll tell you, we always were partners, and we never left."},{"start":414.52,"end":415.25,"text":"Oh, I know."},{"start":415.29,"end":416.89,"text":"Jesus Christ."},{"start":417.27,"end":422.81,"text":"All of a sudden, you've recorded this, and let me talk."},{"start":422.95,"end":423.27,"text":"Well, I..."},{"start":433.55,"end":438.87,"text":"I just want to thank all of you while you're here for what you've done, the honor and the days."},{"start":440.11,"end":443.06,"text":"I've been through two already."},{"start":443.42,"end":447.54,"text":"Almost a lot of great, very honored, great services to the country."},{"start":448.44,"end":452.54,"text":"And I wish we could do more to express appreciation."},{"start":453.18,"end":455.4,"text":"I wish we could do more to be here."},{"start":455.48,"end":456.12,"text":"Oh yes, right."},{"start":458.32,"end":461.26,"text":"I mean, you've got to be particularly non-partisan this year."},{"start":461.68,"end":469.44,"text":"I had a film resort all over the country after we started our American-American film."},{"start":470.34,"end":471.68,"text":"And you were on for four minutes."},{"start":474,"end":476.6,"text":"It's too long."},{"start":476.64,"end":479.1,"text":"We had the issue of the 26th Amendment."},{"start":479.28,"end":480.3,"text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":480.35,"end":481.58,"text":"Those speech-again-deaf people."},{"start":481.75,"end":483.05,"text":"Those speech-again-deaf people."},{"start":483.11,"end":483.4,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":483.62,"end":484.4,"text":"We had you on."},{"start":484.46,"end":486.41,"text":"That's why you're best friends with them."},{"start":488.15,"end":489.09,"text":"Well, that's good."},{"start":489.13,"end":490.35,"text":"That's great."},{"start":490.37,"end":490.65,"text":"That's true."},{"start":490.69,"end":496.41,"text":"Well, it didn't just make it good non-political, right?"},{"start":496.45,"end":500.05,"text":"What I say is that it's one of the best showings in Washington."},{"start":500.07,"end":507.21,"text":"You can see how much progress was made in reducing crime, tragedy, and all that."},{"start":507.25,"end":508.06,"text":"That's all."},{"start":508.56,"end":512.5,"text":"The only thing about it, we've got to say the mayor's presence on these two years for me."},{"start":513.62,"end":523.85,"text":"It's been a long time since when he came in, remember, the crime was up, and we had all this, and now we've got, this is the one of the few major states where crime has been found."},{"start":523.87,"end":527.91,"text":"Much, much greater than the marriage of the Shepard."},{"start":529.23,"end":532.39,"text":"We don't know, but the other will be."},{"start":532.43,"end":534.63,"text":"That's what the resources were."},{"start":534.69,"end":536.19,"text":"That's what the resources were."},{"start":536.25,"end":539.51,"text":"We'd get crime now, and lose the baseball club."},{"start":539.61,"end":540.87,"text":"I've got to get that back."},{"start":540.95,"end":541.85,"text":"I can steal them."},{"start":541.87,"end":543.87,"text":"Well, we've got to get the crime report."},{"start":543.89,"end":548.85,"text":"We took the Congress down there, and we had a voice of charge."},{"start":548.91,"end":551.79,"text":"We went to Phoenix, and I think it's over now."},{"start":552.46,"end":557.34,"text":"I don't think we're going to have to battle them, that's all."},{"start":557.36,"end":559.98,"text":"We're going to get them."},{"start":560.12,"end":565.34,"text":"In the meantime, I'm doing the best I can to hold Georgia out of here."},{"start":565.42,"end":566.12,"text":"You want to go?"},{"start":566.24,"end":566.48,"text":"No, sir."},{"start":566.52,"end":567.58,"text":"You want to go?"},{"start":567.7,"end":570.96,"text":"More, more, more, more."},{"start":572.9,"end":574.01,"text":"Well, you know, let's see."},{"start":574.23,"end":575.57,"text":"We've got 200 of them."},{"start":575.61,"end":577.45,"text":"We have a great deal of them."},{"start":577.49,"end":578.51,"text":"We've got to get it."},{"start":578.53,"end":587.58,"text":"These little trees that are down there are from the time of the war."},{"start":588.78,"end":591.88,"text":"There's more competition about those pandas"},{"start":611.25,"end":612.52,"text":"All right."},{"start":612.96,"end":613.68,"text":"Well, thank you."},{"start":613.98,"end":617.06,"text":"I appreciate your interest."},{"start":640.61,"end":644.61,"text":"or or or or or or or or or or or or or or"},{"start":667.13,"end":667.74,"text":"Don't lose it."},{"start":667.93,"end":669.62,"text":"It's got my name on it."},{"start":669.68,"end":672.42,"text":"Most important for you, y'all."},{"start":691.45,"end":692.33,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":721.32,"end":725.06,"text":"Well, thank you very much."},{"start":725.08,"end":726.52,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":726.54,"end":730.62,"text":"Well, I'm sorry to interrupt."},{"start":730.72,"end":733.14,"text":"I'm sorry to interrupt."},{"start":733.16,"end":736.64,"text":"You've got to mind your own business."},{"start":736.69,"end":737.89,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":739.43,"end":739.89,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":746.69,"end":747.27,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":771.15,"end":771.81,"text":"Very good."},{"start":772.79,"end":773.9,"text":"Very good."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with a delegation 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