{"conversationCode":"003-024","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-024","startDateTime":"1971-05-12T20:32:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-12T21:28:00.000Z","startDate":"12-May-1971","startTime":"4:32 PM","endDate":"12-May-1971","endTime":"5:28 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and 5:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-024 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. 003-024\n\nDate: May 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:32 pm and 5:29 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Leslie C. Arends\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["003-024.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:27:34","tapeEnd":"00:27:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-023","nextCode":"003-025","transcript":[{"start":0.12,"end":3.63,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":3.65,"end":4.5,"text":"Please."},{"start":4.7,"end":7.19,"text":"Would you get me Congressman Ahrens, please?"},{"start":7.29,"end":8.15,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs the White House operator to place a telephone call to Congressman Leslie C. Arends. This brief administrative interaction serves as a precursor to a legislative outreach effort. No further substantive discussion occurs during this recording.","topics":["Leslie C. Arends","Legislative relations","White House operations","Communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:22:48.157Z"},"topicSlugs":["leslie-c-arends","legislative-relations","white-house-operations","communication"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-024.mp3","bytes":106496,"durationSec":8.39,"bitrate":101567,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.593Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-024.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-024","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-024","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}