{"conversationCode":"001-097","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":97,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-097","startDateTime":"1971-04-16T01:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-16T01:18:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Apr-1971","startTime":"8:17 PM","endDate":"15-Apr-1971","endTime":"8:18 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 8:17 pm to 8:18 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-097 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. 1-97\n\nDate: April 15, 1971\nTime: 8:17 pm - 8:18 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n\f     Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["001-097.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:20:13","tapeEnd":"03:20:17","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-096","nextCode":"001-098","transcript":[{"start":0.76,"end":1.52,"text":"Holloman, please."},{"start":1.59,"end":1.91,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone request for the White House operator to connect him with his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. This exchange serves strictly as an administrative bridge to facilitate a subsequent conversation between the President and his top aide. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occur during this brief communication.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","telecommunications","administrative task"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:00:19.147Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","telecommunications","administrative-task"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-097.mp3","bytes":65200,"durationSec":2.63,"bitrate":198285,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.350Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-097.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-097","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-097","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}