{"conversationCode":"001-139","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":139,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-139","startDateTime":"1971-04-18T14:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-18T14:48:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Apr-1971","startTime":"9:15 AM","endDate":"18-Apr-1971","endTime":"9:48 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:15 am and 9:48 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-139 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. 1-139\n\nDate: April 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:15 am and 9:48 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Usher's Office","filename":["001-139.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:20:31","tapeEnd":"04:20:38","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-138","nextCode":"001-140","transcript":[{"start":1.94,"end":2.68,"text":"Yes, Pace?"},{"start":2.7,"end":3.99,"text":"Get me to the usher's office, please."},{"start":4.01,"end":4.71,"text":"Thank you, son."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a direct connection to the Usher's Office. This brief administrative call served as a routine communication relay to facilitate internal White House logistics. No substantive policy discussions took place during this exchange.","topics":["White House operations","Usher's Office","administrative communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:04:09.048Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","ushers-office","administrative-communication"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-139.mp3","bytes":117863,"durationSec":4.83,"bitrate":195149,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-139.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-139","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-139","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}