{"conversationCode":"001-049","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":49,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-049","startDateTime":"1971-04-08T22:23:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-08T22:28:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Apr-1971","startTime":"5:23 PM","endDate":"8-Apr-1971","endTime":"5:28 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:23 pm and 5:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-049 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. 1-49\n\nDate: April 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:23 pm and 5:28 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Judge Thomas F. Murphy's location","filename":["001-049.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:51:00","tapeEnd":"01:51:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-048","nextCode":"001-050","transcript":[{"start":0.07,"end":0.29,"text":"Hello."},{"start":0.51,"end":6.13,"text":"Mr. Crescent, on that call to Judge Murphy, I'm not getting an answer at his chambers, and he had an unpublished number."},{"start":6.17,"end":8.14,"text":"That's why it took so long, and they're not answering there."},{"start":8.22,"end":10.04,"text":"Can I keep after it this evening for you?"},{"start":10.12,"end":10.88,"text":"I'll try it tomorrow."},{"start":10.96,"end":11.54,"text":"All right, fine."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator regarding an unsuccessful attempt to reach Judge Thomas F. Murphy by telephone. The operator reported that neither the judge's chambers nor his unpublished home number were answering. Nixon decided to discontinue the attempts for the evening and rescheduled the effort for the following day.","topics":["Thomas F. Murphy","White House communications","telecommunications","scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:56:03.328Z"},"topicSlugs":["thomas-f-murphy","white-house-communications","telecommunications","scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-049.mp3","bytes":289644,"durationSec":12,"bitrate":193126,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.350Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-049.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-049","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-049","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}