{"conversationCode":"002-073","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":73,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-073","startDateTime":"1971-05-04T20:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-04T20:20:00.000Z","startDate":"4-May-1971","startTime":"4:10 PM","endDate":"4-May-1971","endTime":"4:20 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:10 pm and 4:20 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-073 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. 2-73\n\nDate: May 4, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:10 pm 4:20 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 490-24B]\n\n     Call to Walter E. Washington","filename":["002-073.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:53:52","tapeEnd":"02:54:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-072","nextCode":"002-074","transcript":[{"start":0.81,"end":2.88,"text":"Mr., uh, the Mayor of Washington, please."},{"start":2.9,"end":4.47,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a call to Walter E. Washington, the Mayor of Washington, D.C., through the White House operator. This brief interaction serves as a routine administrative request to connect the President with local municipal leadership. No substantive policy discussions occur within this segment as the exchange is limited to the operator successfully placing the call.","topics":["Walter E. Washington","White House operations","Presidential communications","Mayor of Washington D.C."],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:14:09.455Z"},"topicSlugs":["walter-e-washington","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","mayor-of-washington-d-c"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-073.mp3","bytes":59331,"durationSec":5.03,"bitrate":94421,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-073.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-073","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-073","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}