{"conversationCode":"003-019","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":19,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-019","startDateTime":"1971-05-12T20:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-12T20:24:00.000Z","startDate":"12-May-1971","startTime":"4:17 PM","endDate":"12-May-1971","endTime":"4:24 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:17 pm and 4:24 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-019 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. 003-019\n\nDate: May 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:17 pm and 4:24 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\n          Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator; other White House operators can be heard\nin the background.\n\n     Call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon\n\n[Pause]\n\nThe President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time.\n\n     President's appreciation\n\n[Pause]","filename":["003-019.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:23:38","tapeEnd":"00:24:42","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"003-018","nextCode":"003-020","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":29.65,"text":"That's an excellent place Thank you Thank you"},{"start":59.87,"end":61.16,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a call to the White House operator to facilitate a conversation with First Lady Pat Nixon. Following this, he briefly conferred with an unknown individual to express his appreciation for their efforts. The dialogue concluded with formal acknowledgments of gratitude, though the substantive details of the discussion remain largely inaudible or missing from the record.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communications","Personal correspondence"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:22:21.556Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","personal-correspondence"],"audioDurationSec":62,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-019.mp3","bytes":720896,"durationSec":61.74,"bitrate":93415,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.593Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-019.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-019","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-019","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}