{"conversationCode":"856-001","tapeNumber":856,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-856-001","startDateTime":"1973-02-14T19:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-14T19:31:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Feb-1973","startTime":"2:20 PM","endDate":"14-Feb-1973","endTime":"2:31 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Unknown;","description":"On February 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) [television technicians] met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:20 pm and 2:31 pm. 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Ehrlichman’s arrival [?]\n                      -Audio check\n              -Reading\n                      -Special programs on energy\n                      -Volume\n\nThe President participated in recording a televised address on natural resources and environment\nbetween 2:25 pm and 2:30 pm.\n\n               -Environment\n                      -Proposals\n                             -92nd Congress\n                             -93rd Congress\n                      -Environmental quality\n                      -1972 trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]\n                             -“America the Beautiful”\n                      -Prisoners of war [POWs]\n\n        Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n                        -Beauty of US\n                        -Energy crisis\n                               -Fuel shortages\n                               -The President’s messages to Congress on energy\n                -Press coverage\n                        -Headlines\n                -Separate statement on energy\n\nThe President, et al., left at 2:31 pm.","filename":["856-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Unknown"],"prevCode":"855-028","nextCode":"856-002","transcript":[{"start":29.07,"end":29.67,"text":"All right."},{"start":54.14,"end":55.9,"text":"You got a cable here?"},{"start":83.38,"end":93.58,"text":"Can you come on the back a little more?"},{"start":103.51,"end":109.7,"text":"But he's not getting any on the papers."},{"start":110.26,"end":122.59,"text":"He didn't want to put some on the papers."},{"start":122.61,"end":123.41,"text":"That's it."},{"start":123.43,"end":129.69,"text":"Uh-huh."},{"start":135.81,"end":146.01,"text":"There you go."},{"start":161.43,"end":166.39,"text":"Tell me about it."},{"start":166.47,"end":167.49,"text":"Tell me about it."},{"start":167.55,"end":169.69,"text":"Tell me about it."},{"start":169.75,"end":171.37,"text":"Tell me about it."},{"start":191.93,"end":193.47,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":206.75,"end":208.51,"text":"How are you doing?"},{"start":208.57,"end":209.59,"text":"How are you doing?"},{"start":230.4,"end":231.86,"text":"All right."},{"start":253.83,"end":258.57,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":294.72,"end":300.35,"text":"I don't get it."},{"start":309.69,"end":310.81,"text":"Well, it's not very strong in the jails, you know."},{"start":310.83,"end":311.63,"text":"Well, I don't know."},{"start":311.65,"end":312.25,"text":"I mean, it's still over."},{"start":312.29,"end":313.53,"text":"Well, we've got to do something."},{"start":313.55,"end":314.07,"text":"We've got to come in now."},{"start":314.09,"end":314.73,"text":"Well, we've got to do something."},{"start":314.75,"end":315.35,"text":"We've got to come in now."},{"start":315.37,"end":316.13,"text":"Well, we've got to do something."},{"start":316.15,"end":317.07,"text":"We've got to come in now."},{"start":317.09,"end":317.77,"text":"Well, we've got to do something."},{"start":317.79,"end":318.35,"text":"We've got to come in now."},{"start":318.37,"end":318.99,"text":"Well, we've got to do 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something."},{"start":337.94,"end":338.44,"text":"We've got to do something."},{"start":338.46,"end":338.56,"text":"We've"},{"start":341.7,"end":351.13,"text":"This is like that movie."},{"start":364.4,"end":367.4,"text":"So I've got a race in the case."},{"start":367.44,"end":369.16,"text":"What's the matter with you?"},{"start":369.32,"end":370.84,"text":"What's the matter with you?"},{"start":397.96,"end":398.76,"text":"Are you all right?"},{"start":398.8,"end":400.56,"text":"You got a shot or something?"},{"start":400.72,"end":402.6,"text":"No, it's okay."},{"start":402.62,"end":402.9,"text":"Go ahead."},{"start":402.92,"end":408.76,"text":"You got a shot or something?"},{"start":408.79,"end":410.03,"text":"You got a shot or something?"},{"start":410.07,"end":412.95,"text":"You got a shot or something?"},{"start":413.73,"end":418.95,"text":"You got a shot or something?"},{"start":419.01,"end":420.59,"text":"You got a shot or something?"},{"start":420.63,"end":425.48,"text":"You got a shot or something?"},{"start":439.36,"end":450.27,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":462.24,"end":462.6,"text":"All right."},{"start":485.4,"end":488.62,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":488.78,"end":491.98,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":508.79,"end":511.07,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":568.47,"end":574.34,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":575.12,"end":579.9,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":622.13,"end":622.77,"text":"You don't have good levels."},{"start":622.79,"end":627.29,"text":"That's all right, we'll cover it up as well."},{"start":627.31,"end":630.54,"text":"It's funny, I can report to you that."},{"start":630.6,"end":632.86,"text":"You don't have good levels."},{"start":635.5,"end":638.6,"text":"You ready to talk?"},{"start":638.73,"end":638.95,"text":"Ready, boys?"},{"start":643.52,"end":652.87,"text":"All the evidence shows that we are well on the way to winning the war against environmental degradation and harm, and well on the way to making our peace with nature."},{"start":653.95,"end":658.68,"text":"But while we can be proud of our record in this field, we must remember that a record is not something to stand on."},{"start":658.7,"end":661.58,"text":"It's something to build on."},{"start":661.7,"end":672.51,"text":"In the coming weeks, I shall send back to the Congress a number of urgently needed environmental proposals, which were not enacted in the last session, so that the unfinished environmental business"},{"start":672.95,"end":679.14,"text":"of the 92nd Congress can become the first environmental achievements of the 93rd Congress."},{"start":681.76,"end":689.16,"text":"Each of us has a personal stake in the success of these proposals and in the work of achieving greater quality in our lives and our surroundings."},{"start":689.75,"end":694.39,"text":"One of the most memorable experiences I have had as President"},{"start":695.27,"end":703.22,"text":"occurred just a year ago during my visit to the People's Republic of China when the Chinese army band played America the Beautiful."},{"start":704.8,"end":716.14,"text":"No one will sing America the Beautiful with greater feeling than our prisoners of war as they return home from years of communist captivity in and of China."},{"start":716.16,"end":717.4,"text":"America is a beautiful country."},{"start":718.64,"end":720.37,"text":"By our commitment to conservation,"},{"start":720.99,"end":728.56,"text":"restoration, and renewal, let us resolve to make America even more beautiful for the generations ahead."},{"start":734.76,"end":740.45,"text":"Our growing energy crisis has been dramatized by fuel shortages this year across the nation."},{"start":742.05,"end":743.79,"text":"We must face up to a stark battle."},{"start":744.81,"end":748.46,"text":"We are now consuming more energy than we produce."},{"start":749.98,"end":756.97,"text":"A year and a half ago, I sent to the Congress the first presidential message ever devoted to the energy 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