{"conversationCode":"002-061","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":61,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-061","startDateTime":"1971-04-30T02:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-30T02:31:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Apr-1971","startTime":"10:25 PM","endDate":"29-Apr-1971","endTime":"10:31 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:25 pm and 10:31 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-061 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. 2-61\n\nDate: April 29, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:25 pm and 10:31 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Patrick J. Buchanan","filename":["002-061.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:22:39","tapeEnd":"02:22:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-060","nextCode":"002-062","transcript":[{"start":2.83,"end":4.84,"text":"Thank you sir"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a telephone call to contact his special assistant, Patrick J. Buchanan, via the White House operator. This brief exchange served primarily as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and a key staff member. No substantive political or policy discussions took place during this brief interaction.","topics":["Patrick J. Buchanan","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:13:04.008Z"},"topicSlugs":["patrick-j-buchanan","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-061.mp3","bytes":101377,"durationSec":5.45,"bitrate":148923,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-061.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-061","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-061","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}