{"conversationCode":"002-079","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":79,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-079","startDateTime":"1971-05-04T23:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-04T23:49:00.000Z","startDate":"4-May-1971","startTime":"7:47 PM","endDate":"4-May-1971","endTime":"7:49 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 7:47 pm and 7:49 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-079 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. 2-79\n\nDate: May 4, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:47 pm and 7:49 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n                                                                                               Back to Top\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["002-079.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:02:19","tapeEnd":"03:02:24","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-078","nextCode":"002-080","transcript":[{"start":1.06,"end":2.14,"text":"Parliament, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a call to his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman, through the White House operator. The brief exchange serves as a routine administrative request to facilitate communication with a key staff member. No substantive policy discussions or major decisions occur during this brief operational task.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:14:42.252Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-079.mp3","bytes":57950,"durationSec":3.35,"bitrate":138334,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:32.967Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-079.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-079","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-079","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}