{"conversationCode":"002-102","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":102,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-102","startDateTime":"1971-05-06T12:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-06T13:10:00.000Z","startDate":"6-May-1971","startTime":"8:37 AM","endDate":"6-May-1971","endTime":"9:10 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:37 am and 9:10 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-102 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. 2-102\n\nDate: May 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:37 am and 9:10 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 493-2]\n\n     Call to Gerald R. Ford","filename":["002-102.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:43:21","tapeEnd":"03:43:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-101","nextCode":"002-103","transcript":[{"start":0.47,"end":1,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":1.04,"end":2.48,"text":"Congressman Ford, please."},{"start":2.74,"end":3.83,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact Representative Gerald R. Ford. The exchange serves solely as an administrative connection to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and the Congressman. No substantive policy matters are addressed during this brief operational request.","topics":["Gerald R. Ford","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:16:47.380Z"},"topicSlugs":["gerald-r-ford","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-102.mp3","bytes":47679,"durationSec":3.91,"bitrate":97556,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-102.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-102","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-102","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}