{"conversationCode":"002-024","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-024","startDateTime":"1971-04-21T21:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-21T21:59:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Apr-1971","startTime":"4:38 PM","endDate":"21-Apr-1971","endTime":"4:59 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:38 pm and 4:59 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-024 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. 2-24\n\nDate: April 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:38 pm and 4:59 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 485-4A]\n\n     Call to William B. Saxbe","filename":["002-024.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:36:06","tapeEnd":"00:36:12","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-023","nextCode":"002-025","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.13,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Senator William B. Saxbe. This brief exchange served as an administrative bridge to initiate direct communication between the President and the Senator. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this specific connection.","topics":["William B. Saxbe","Presidential communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:09:44.084Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-b-saxbe","presidential-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":2,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-024.mp3","bytes":52035,"durationSec":2.08,"bitrate":199742,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:32.960Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-024.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-024","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-024","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}