{"conversationCode":"002-038","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":38,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-038","startDateTime":"1971-04-26T22:53:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-26T23:38:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Apr-1971","startTime":"6:53 PM","endDate":"26-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:38 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:53 pm and 7:38 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-038 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. 2-38\n\nDate: April 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:53 pm and 7:38 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["002-038.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:16:11","tapeEnd":"01:16:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-037","nextCode":"002-039","transcript":[{"start":0.15,"end":10.91,"text":"Mr. Harleman, please."},{"start":11.08,"end":12,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This interaction serves purely as a functional administrative request to bridge the President with his key advisor. No substantive policy matters or political discussions occur during this brief exchange.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:11:02.708Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-038.mp3","bytes":135070,"durationSec":12.46,"bitrate":86749,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-038.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-038","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-038","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}