{"conversationCode":"001-005","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-005","startDateTime":"1971-04-06T05:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-06T05:14:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Apr-1971","startTime":"12:10 AM","endDate":"6-Apr-1971","endTime":"12:14 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; White House operator;","description":"On April 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Alexander P. Butterfield, and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:10 am and 12:14 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-005 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 1-5\n\nDate: April 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:14 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President conferred with John D. Ehrlichman and Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     Instructions\n\n\fThe President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:10 pm and\n12:14 pm.\n\n[See Conversation No. 475-4A]\n\n     Call to Clifford M. Hardin","filename":["001-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:10:33","tapeEnd":"00:10:41","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ehrlichman, John D.","Butterfield, Alexander P.","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-004","nextCode":"001-006","transcript":[{"start":0.33,"end":3.48,"text":"Yeah, he's nice, just the role that he probably has not."},{"start":3.6,"end":4.59,"text":"Secretary Hardin, please."},{"start":4.69,"end":5.05,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon, assisted by John D. Ehrlichman and Alexander P. Butterfield, initiated a telephone call to Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin. The primary purpose of the contact was to facilitate direct communication with the Secretary. No further substantive policy discussions were captured in this brief exchange.","topics":["Clifford M. Hardin","Department of Agriculture","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:38:29.710Z"},"topicSlugs":["clifford-m-hardin","department-of-agriculture","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-005.mp3","bytes":134790,"durationSec":5.55,"bitrate":194389,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.350Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}