{"conversationCode":"003-034","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":34,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-034","startDateTime":"1971-05-12T21:48:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-12T21:52:00.000Z","startDate":"12-May-1971","startTime":"5:48 PM","endDate":"12-May-1971","endTime":"5:52 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 5:48 pm and 5:52 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-034 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. 003-034\n\nDate: May 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:48 pm and 5:52 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 499-002/498-001G]\n\n     Call to John W. Byrnes","filename":["003-034.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:39:45","tapeEnd":"00:39:55","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-033","nextCode":"003-035","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.12,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":2.22,"end":3.92,"text":"John Burns, please."},{"start":3.94,"end":4.99,"text":"John Burns?"},{"start":5.18,"end":9.62,"text":"Congressman John Burns of Wisconsin."},{"start":9.64,"end":9.84,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a call to Congressman John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin through the White House operator. The brief exchange serves as a procedural request to establish communication with the Representative. No further policy discussion or substantive deliberation occurs during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["John W. Byrnes","Congressman","Legislative liaison","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:23:43.685Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-w-byrnes","congressman","legislative-liaison","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-034.mp3","bytes":127112,"durationSec":10.08,"bitrate":100911,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.595Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-034.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-034","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-034","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}