{"conversationCode":"002-056","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":56,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-056","startDateTime":"1971-04-28T23:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-28T23:48:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Apr-1971","startTime":"7:45 PM","endDate":"28-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:48 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:45 pm and 7:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-056 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. 2-56\n\nDate: April 28, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:45 pm and 7:48 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["002-056.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:09:54","tapeEnd":"02:10:01","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-055","nextCode":"002-057","transcript":[{"start":5.84,"end":5.89,"text":"you"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone request to be connected with his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. This administrative interaction serves as a procedural step to facilitate an urgent discussion between the President and his top aide. No substantive policy matters are addressed during this brief connection attempt.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","administrative procedure"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:12:36.759Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-procedure"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-056.mp3","bytes":112008,"durationSec":5.86,"bitrate":152791,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-056.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-056","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-056","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}