{"conversationCode":"002-070","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":70,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-070","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 002-070 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. 2-70\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 Elliot L. Richardson","filename":["002-070.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:38:33","tapeEnd":"02:38:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-069","nextCode":"002-071","transcript":[{"start":1.04,"end":3.43,"text":"Yes please."},{"start":3.45,"end":4.12,"text":"Yes, that's better."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Elliot L. Richardson. The brief exchange served as a logistical coordination to connect the President with a high-level cabinet official for an unspecified matter. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief request for operator assistance.","topics":["Elliot L. Richardson","Cabinet communication","White House operations","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:13:52.774Z"},"topicSlugs":["elliot-l-richardson","cabinet-communication","white-house-operations","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-070.mp3","bytes":107211,"durationSec":5.86,"bitrate":146244,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-070.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-070","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-070","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}