{"conversationCode":"750-004","tapeNumber":750,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-750-004","startDateTime":"1972-07-21T19:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-07-21T19:43:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Jul-1972","startTime":"3:35 PM","endDate":"21-Jul-1972","endTime":"3:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On July 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:35 pm to 3:43 pm. 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Pryor\n          -Trip to Vietnam\n          -Conversation between Pryor and Woods\n\n     Letter from Sam Krupnick to Rose Mary Woods\n          -Jews\n          -Woods's letter to Krupnick from San Clemente\n                -Thomas F. Eagleton as vice presidential candidate\n                     -Missouri\n          -Krupnick's reply\n                -Eagleton\n\n     Other correspondence\n\n                                       (rev. Mar-02)\n\n     Eagleton\n          -Health\n                -Introduction for Patrick J. Buchanan\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 11/01/2022.\n2m 19s segment cleared for release. 16s remain closed as 750-004-w001.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[750-004-w001]\n[Duration: 2m 19s]\n\n     Rose Mary Wood's contact with Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n         -Telephone calls\n         -Meeting\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[750-004-w001]\n[Duration: 16s]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n     Twin Circle magazine article\n         -Catholic\n         -Coverage of Susan Eisenhower's marriage\n               -Baby\n         -Rose Mary Woods\n               -Sent to [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n                    -Reaction\n\n     Weather\n         -Air conditioning\n         -Temperature\n         -Outdoors\n               -Rose Mary Woods’ social schedule\n\n                                        (rev. Mar-02)\n\n                      -Clark Macgregor's\n                          -Cocktail party [?]\n                      -Chance of rain\n\n     The President's exercise\n          -Walking\n          -Swimming\n\n     Weather at Camp David\n         -Compared to Washington, DC\n                -Things to do at Camp David\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -July 22, 1972 wedding\n                -Return to Camp David afterwards\n                -Tricia Nixon Cox [?]\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nWoods left at 3:43 pm.","filename":["750-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"750-003","nextCode":"750-005","transcript":[{"start":3.62,"end":6.12,"text":"I don't need mine."},{"start":6.13,"end":12.14,"text":"I just wanted to be sure they found this as a matter of style."},{"start":12.18,"end":13.64,"text":"Let me show you."},{"start":35.91,"end":37.67,"text":"Which of our fellows is going to be working on that?"},{"start":37.69,"end":39.2,"text":"I guess Holsberg and others."},{"start":39.22,"end":39.46,"text":"Here it is."},{"start":39.52,"end":40.1,"text":"It's on the catheter."},{"start":40.12,"end":53.21,"text":"I'm going to come in here, and if Gary's going to control it, I'm going to count on my chest to see if Gary can do it."},{"start":53.23,"end":54.33,"text":"I'm going to take care of it."},{"start":54.55,"end":56.57,"text":"You can talk about it."},{"start":57.73,"end":58.41,"text":"You can talk about it."},{"start":58.55,"end":60.01,"text":"You can talk about it."},{"start":60.79,"end":65.68,"text":"You can talk about it."},{"start":66.26,"end":89,"text":"I'll give the name to Hogan and see if he's working with somebody else."},{"start":89.12,"end":93.67,"text":"And I'm going to tell her anyhow."},{"start":96.32,"end":97.7,"text":"Well, that's the way you think about this."},{"start":97.72,"end":103.02,"text":"Well, it isn't that."},{"start":103.04,"end":103.36,"text":"It isn't."},{"start":103.38,"end":105.04,"text":"It's not the reason."},{"start":106.3,"end":108.94,"text":"It's part of the reason."},{"start":110.22,"end":111.04,"text":"Except that it's..."},{"start":113.3,"end":117.66,"text":"It's something that added to the eulogies that can make it..."},{"start":117.68,"end":118.56,"text":"It makes it..."},{"start":118.58,"end":123.7,"text":"It makes it a story rather than just being a dozen-man prose that's there."},{"start":124.28,"end":125.08,"text":"It makes it live."},{"start":126.95,"end":135.3,"text":"When you're going up to Camp David, there's a letter here which I think you would find interesting to read from Sam Pryor."},{"start":135.32,"end":137.08,"text":"He's, you know, back from Vietnam."},{"start":138.34,"end":140,"text":"And I talked with him this morning."},{"start":140.84,"end":141.94,"text":"You might like to read that one."},{"start":142.81,"end":144.43,"text":"And Sam Pryor wrote a letter."},{"start":144.51,"end":147.85,"text":"I've been, you know, I write to him back and forth."},{"start":149.54,"end":156.85,"text":"And he wrote me another note too long ago saying he's even further convinced how much the Jews have done in devout faith."},{"start":157.85,"end":166.49,"text":"And then at the end of my letter to him from San Clemente, I said, now that the Democrats have chosen Eagleton, do you think that will, what do you think it'll do in Missouri?"},{"start":166.51,"end":167.95,"text":"You know, just for something to fill the letter."},{"start":167.97,"end":170.35,"text":"I just keep getting interested in reading that."},{"start":170.37,"end":170.55,"text":"Sure."},{"start":170.57,"end":172.57,"text":"Because he's talking about Eagleton and what he's like."},{"start":172.65,"end":172.91,"text":"Good."},{"start":172.93,"end":175.45,"text":"So I don't agree with that point."},{"start":175.47,"end":177.19,"text":"Yeah, that's a good thing to do."},{"start":178.22,"end":181.19,"text":"And I've got some other little FYIs I'll bring in."},{"start":181.21,"end":182.87,"text":"I'll put those in at the same time."},{"start":182.91,"end":185.21,"text":"Because these two are very important."},{"start":185.43,"end":185.67,"text":"Right."},{"start":187.67,"end":188.85,"text":"Does he really confirm that?"},{"start":189.59,"end":190.43,"text":"Drinking too much?"},{"start":192.87,"end":195.26,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":195.34,"end":200.72,"text":"You can't, you know, I'll say it, but you know, you can't bring it in."},{"start":200.76,"end":200.88,"text":"Yes."},{"start":200.94,"end":201.4,"text":"Because he knows."},{"start":201.42,"end":202.2,"text":"I'll send him up there."},{"start":202.28,"end":202.82,"text":"I'll get him up."},{"start":202.88,"end":203.08,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, reviewed administrative tasks, including a draft eulogy and various pieces of incoming correspondence. 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