{"conversationCode":"002-034","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":34,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-034","startDateTime":"1971-04-23T18:04:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-23T18:11:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Apr-1971","startTime":"1:04 PM","endDate":"23-Apr-1971","endTime":"1:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:04 pm and 1:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-034 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. 2-34\n\nDate: April 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:04 pm and 1:11 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 487-16]\n\n     Call to Robert A. Taft, Jr.","filename":["002-034.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:10:52","tapeEnd":"01:10:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-033","nextCode":"002-035","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.98,"text":"Senator Taft please."},{"start":4.46,"end":6.09,"text":"Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a call to the White House operator to facilitate a communication with Senator Robert A. Taft, Jr. The brief exchange serves as a logistical step to connect the President with the Senator for a subsequent discussion. No substantive policy matters are addressed in this short administrative interaction.","topics":["Robert A. Taft Jr.","White House operations","Presidential communications","Senator"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:10:40.545Z"},"topicSlugs":["robert-a-taft-jr","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","senator"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-034.mp3","bytes":70547,"durationSec":6.5,"bitrate":86768,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-034.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-034","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-034","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}