{"conversationCode":"002-069","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":69,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-069","startDateTime":"1971-04-30T02:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-30T02:57:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Apr-1971","startTime":"10:50 PM","endDate":"29-Apr-1971","endTime":"10:57 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 10:50 pm and 10:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-069 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. 2-69\n\nDate: April 29, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:50 pm and 10:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to John B. Connally\n\n                                                                                               Back to Top\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["002-069.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:38:27","tapeEnd":"02:38:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-068","nextCode":"002-070","transcript":[{"start":1.31,"end":2.87,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."},{"start":3.15,"end":3.57,"text":"Mr. Connolly, please."},{"start":3.67,"end":4.44,"text":"All right, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator place a call to Treasury Secretary John B. Connally. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to initiate a direct conversation between the President and his cabinet official. No substantive policy discussions took place during this exchange.","topics":["John B. Connally","White House operations","Presidential communications","Treasury Department"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:13:47.416Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-b-connally","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","treasury-department"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-069.mp3","bytes":99098,"durationSec":5.45,"bitrate":145575,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:32.966Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-069.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-069","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-069","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}