{"conversationCode":"001-088","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":88,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-088","startDateTime":"1971-04-15T00:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-15T00:58:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Apr-1971","startTime":"7:58 PM","endDate":"14-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:58 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 7:58 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-088 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. 1-88\n\n\fDate: April 14, 1971\nTime: 7:58 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["001-088.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:04:46","tapeEnd":"03:04:53","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-087","nextCode":"001-089","transcript":[{"start":0.05,"end":0.42,"text":"Yes ma'am."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief exchange served exclusively as a procedural step to initiate an official communication between the President and his top aide. No substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative task"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:59:30.573Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-task"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-088.mp3","bytes":62066,"durationSec":2.5,"bitrate":198735,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-088.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-088","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-088","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}