{"conversationCode":"001-050","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":50,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-050","startDateTime":"1971-04-09T02:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-09T02:57:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Apr-1971","startTime":"9:37 PM","endDate":"8-Apr-1971","endTime":"9:57 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 9:37 pm and 9:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-050 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. 1-50\n\nDate: April 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:37 pm and 9:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["001-050.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:51:15","tapeEnd":"01:51:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-049","nextCode":"001-051","transcript":[{"start":0.18,"end":0.64,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":0.87,"end":1.61,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":1.88,"end":2.24,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical request to establish a secure line of communication. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operator","Telecommunications","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:56:08.684Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operator","telecommunications","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-050.mp3","bytes":62692,"durationSec":2.53,"bitrate":198555,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.350Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-050.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-050","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-050","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}