{"conversationCode":"917-009","tapeNumber":917,"conversationNumber":9,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-917-009","startDateTime":"1973-05-14T15:28:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-14T15:40:00.000Z","startDate":"14-May-1973","startTime":"11:28 AM","endDate":"14-May-1973","endTime":"11:40 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am. 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Ziegler\n                      -Dean\n\nThe President played a portion of a previously recorded dictabelt tape.\n\n       Memo to unknown person\n             -Tape location\n\nThe President stopped playing the dictabelt tape.\n\n       Watergate\n             -President’s memos and dictabelt tapes [?]\n                    -Date ranges\n                    -Procedures for handling\n\nWoods left at an unknown time before 11:40 a.m.\n\n[There is no Conversation No. 917-010]","filename":["917-009.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"917-008","nextCode":"917-011","transcript":[{"start":3.51,"end":4.11,"text":"There is one."},{"start":4.13,"end":6.97,"text":"I'll tell you about the picture."},{"start":7,"end":12.35,"text":"I'll bring it back to you."},{"start":32.22,"end":36.12,"text":"Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it."},{"start":36.18,"end":38.18,"text":"But do you have the original one?"},{"start":38.2,"end":38.76,"text":"Do you have any other ones?"},{"start":38.78,"end":40.64,"text":"We're checking because I remember them."},{"start":41.06,"end":42.52,"text":"But that's the other one in that period."},{"start":42.54,"end":44.4,"text":"We're double checking."},{"start":44.42,"end":48.97,"text":"Well, you know, there wouldn't be any before that, Rose, because I didn't ever think of being before that."},{"start":50.3,"end":51.21,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":51.23,"end":53.23,"text":"And here are all of your tapes, your personal tapes, from 2007."},{"start":53.29,"end":57.71,"text":"That was when you were divorced."},{"start":58.47,"end":58.61,"text":"Yes."},{"start":108.88,"end":109.14,"text":"Okay."},{"start":143.19,"end":148.28,"text":"I'll return the picture to my private file."},{"start":148.32,"end":169.35,"text":"I'll tell you what would be better rather than having to deal with all these things."},{"start":170.77,"end":171.25,"text":"Just mark 27, 28."},{"start":173.65,"end":177.05,"text":"I'll take this one."},{"start":177.15,"end":181.88,"text":"I'll tell you what would be better."},{"start":200.18,"end":207.06,"text":"having him here with all these things."},{"start":207.08,"end":208.82,"text":"Just mark them, 27 and 28."},{"start":208.96,"end":212.51,"text":"I'll take this one now."},{"start":212.75,"end":215.72,"text":"And I'll just hand them all back to you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, met to organize and review sensitive records, including Presidential memoranda and dictabelt tapes relevant to the Watergate investigation. 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