{"conversationCode":"001-149","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":149,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-149","startDateTime":"1971-04-18T18:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-18T18:28:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Apr-1971","startTime":"1:18 PM","endDate":"18-Apr-1971","endTime":"1:28 PM","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 1:18 pm and 1:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-149 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. 1-149\n\nDate: April 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:18 pm and 1:28 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Call from Henry A. Kissinger\n\n     Call to John B. Connally","filename":["001-149.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:48:55","tapeEnd":"04:48:56","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-148","nextCode":"001-150","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.72,"text":"I'm waiting for Dr. Kissinger to come on the line."},{"start":2.86,"end":5.3,"text":"Oh, if he's busy, I'll get Secretary Connolly."},{"start":5.32,"end":6.43,"text":"I have to talk to him, too."},{"start":6.46,"end":7.12,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to facilitate a sequence of urgent communications with key advisors. He requested to speak with Henry Kissinger regarding ongoing matters and specified that he also needed to contact Treasury Secretary John B. Connally. The exchange served as a logistical coordination effort to secure immediate consultations with these high-level officials.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","John B. Connally","White House communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:06:52.644Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","john-b-connally","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-149.mp3","bytes":171780,"durationSec":7.07,"bitrate":194254,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-149.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-149","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-149","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}