{"conversationCode":"002-063","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":63,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-063","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 002-063 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. 2-63\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 H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["002-063.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:22:52","tapeEnd":"02:23:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-062","nextCode":"002-064","transcript":[{"start":1.03,"end":2.33,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":2.92,"end":3.21,"text":"Alderman Cruz."},{"start":3.23,"end":3.41,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection to his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. The exchange served primarily as a brief administrative request to initiate a high-level communication. No substantive policy discussions or decisions were recorded during this short bridging call.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:13:14.204Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-063.mp3","bytes":78210,"durationSec":4.19,"bitrate":149359,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-063.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-063","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-063","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}