{"conversationCode":"002-003","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-003","startDateTime":"1971-04-19T23:32:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-19T23:50:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Apr-1971","startTime":"6:32 PM","endDate":"19-Apr-1971","endTime":"6:50 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:32 pm and 6:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-003 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. 2-3\n\nDate: April 19, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:32 pm and 6:50 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to William P. Rogers","filename":["002-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:02:01","tapeEnd":"00:02:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-002","nextCode":"002-004","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.54,"text":"Yes please."},{"start":0.56,"end":1.77,"text":"Secretary Rogers please."},{"start":1.87,"end":2.75,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The communication served solely as a logistical request to connect the President with his Secretary of State for an undisclosed discussion. No policy decisions or substantive conversations occurred during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["William P. Rogers","White House operations","Presidential communications","Department of State"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:07:42.464Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","state-department"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-003.mp3","bytes":67081,"durationSec":2.71,"bitrate":197709,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:32.957Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/002/conversation-002-003","catalogNaId":417187973,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417187973","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}