{"conversationCode":"799-032","tapeNumber":799,"conversationNumber":32,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-799-032","startDateTime":"1972-10-16T20:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-16T20:51:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Oct-1972","startTime":"4:49 PM","endDate":"16-Oct-1972","endTime":"4:51 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Fast, William M.;","description":"On October 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William M. Fast met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:49 pm to 4:51 pm. 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Fast.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 12/12/2022.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[799-032-w001]\n[Duration: 1m 53s]\n\n[See Conversation No. 031-071-w001]\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["799-032-nara.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Fast, William M."],"prevCode":"799-031","nextCode":"799-033","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon called William M. Fast to express his appreciation for Fast's work on the labor committee on the West Coast, specifically mentioning Fast's efforts in Portland, Oregon. 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I'm just calling you to thank you for all of the fine work you've been doing out there on the West Coast on our labor committee. I was talking to Don Rogers and uh and uh we certainly appreciate it."},{"start":23,"end":47,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"All right. Well, that's good. Fine. Yeah, you're you're Portland actually. Right. I know. I know. Well, we're I know, but everything you've been doing here. And uh we uh of course I uh I'm uh I haven't got no chance to get out in Oregon, but I I've just talked to Don Rogers and he's told me about all your work and I do appreciate it very much."},{"start":47,"end":49,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":52,"end":64,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Well, one of these days, uh, after this election I'll thank you personally, and uh and uh I hope everything's going well out there."},{"start":67,"end":69,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Good. I can imagine. Right."},{"start":70,"end":72,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Good."},{"start":73,"end":77,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Good. Good. Uh-huh."},{"start":79,"end":84,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Right. Right. He's a strong man and a fine man, yeah."},{"start":85,"end":92,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Isn't he though? That's right. He really tells it like it is. [laughter] Right."},{"start":95,"end":103,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Good. Well, that uh we made uh I signed that and uh we worked that out with the Russians just uh just last week, uh-huh. That's what it means, a few jobs."},{"start":104,"end":110,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Right. Right. Well, well, thank you and uh and good luck to you. 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