{"conversationCode":"002-015","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":15,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-015","startDateTime":"1971-04-20T23:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-21T00:30:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Apr-1971","startTime":"6:44 PM","endDate":"20-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:44 pm and 7:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-015 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. 2-15\n\nDate: April 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:44 pm and 7:30 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n\n                                                                                               Back to Top\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["002-015.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:15:47","tapeEnd":"00:15:56","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-014","nextCode":"002-016","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.56,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":0.66,"end":1.49,"text":"Haldeman, please."},{"start":1.64,"end":2.45,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. The primary purpose of the communication is to facilitate a direct line of contact for administrative or scheduling coordination. No substantive policy discussions occur, as the call is purely logistical in nature.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","logistics","presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:08:48.871Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","logistics","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-015.mp3","bytes":70216,"durationSec":2.85,"bitrate":196801,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:32.958Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-015.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-015","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-015","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}