{"conversationCode":"828-008","tapeNumber":828,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-828-008","startDateTime":"1972-12-27T15:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-27T15:48:00.000Z","startDate":"27-Dec-1972","startTime":"10:44 AM","endDate":"27-Dec-1972","endTime":"10:48 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Acker, Marjorie P.;","description":"On December 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:44 am to 10:48 am. 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Tasca\n\f                                               -23-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                                Conversation No. 828-15 (cont’d)\n\n                          -Edward R. G. Heath [?]\n                          -Letters to ambassadors\n                                -Instructions for [Jeanne W. Davis] of the National Security\n                                  Council [NSC]\n                                       -Rose Mary Woods\n                                       -Acker’s meeting with Tricia Nixon Cox\n                                       -[Walter H. and Leonore (Cohn)] Annenberg\n                                       -Soviet Union and Yugoslavia governments\n                                       -Preparation\n                                             -Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s office\n                                       -Acker’s meeting with Tricia Nixon Cox\n\nAcker left at 10:48 am.","filename":["828-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Acker, Marjorie P."],"prevCode":"828-007","nextCode":"828-009","transcript":[{"start":35.66,"end":43.62,"text":"This is another one of those things that goes out there in the West Coast."},{"start":44.58,"end":45.7,"text":"This report goes with it."},{"start":45.72,"end":48.98,"text":"This is a social security report."},{"start":49.02,"end":49.54,"text":"And I think"},{"start":98.4,"end":103.94,"text":"And it was played in a number of embassies."},{"start":105.68,"end":110.55,"text":"They played in embassies like Henry Musgrave."},{"start":110.87,"end":120.45,"text":"And they were also entertained like, for example, Hume."},{"start":121.01,"end":126.18,"text":"Hume entertained Hume, et cetera."},{"start":127.22,"end":131.58,"text":"But I want to, there is a woman over at the NSC who handled that schedule."},{"start":131.6,"end":136.74,"text":"Do you know what I'm talking about?"},{"start":136.76,"end":137.2,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":137.26,"end":138.8,"text":"I agree with that."},{"start":138.82,"end":139.92,"text":"She's a tall man."},{"start":139.94,"end":141.3,"text":"She was in with them."},{"start":141.4,"end":151.35,"text":"But what I had is that I want to be sure, and I want to be sure that adequate letters go from me to the ambassadors that, and you check if you were rose when they get back."},{"start":154.46,"end":164.12,"text":"for the ambassadors if they say, just sit down with patients and each one should receive letters and make or give the fax."},{"start":165.16,"end":174.81,"text":"And have the woman, if she can work out, if you're a listener or somebody over there, work out the letters to the ambassadors."},{"start":175.15,"end":178.63,"text":"And if they stay with the ambassadors, she will have to write her own letters."},{"start":178.65,"end":179.16,"text":"That's up to her."},{"start":179.19,"end":181.54,"text":"But I want letters from me to say the anniversary."},{"start":185.67,"end":188.39,"text":"that she was sending to Christian, et cetera."},{"start":188.41,"end":192.91,"text":"And of course, a good war hunter in the Russian government, for example, understand?"},{"start":193.55,"end":198.45,"text":"So if you just follow up in your shop, you don't have to prepare the letters, understand?"},{"start":198.49,"end":206.63,"text":"But they should be prepared, not just to do the price shop repairs, the ambassadorial types, I mean, the so forth."},{"start":206.88,"end":208.98,"text":"The woman will be able to get you the whole schedule."},{"start":209,"end":213.84,"text":"You sit down with the Christian, get back, go over the whole list of who should receive them."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Marjorie P. Acker to coordinate formal diplomatic correspondence regarding Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox’s upcoming trip to Europe and the Soviet Union. Nixon instructed Acker to collaborate with National Security Council staff to ensure that appropriate thank-you letters are drafted for the ambassadors who hosted the couple. 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