{"conversationCode":"003-049","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":49,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-049","startDateTime":"1971-05-13T19:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-13T19:53:00.000Z","startDate":"13-May-1971","startTime":"3:52 PM","endDate":"13-May-1971","endTime":"3:53 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.;","description":"On May 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 3:52 pm to 3:53 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-049 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. 003-049\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nDate: May 13, 1971\nTime: 3:52 pm - 3:53 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nJohn B. Connally talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 498-015F]\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/24/2017.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[003-049-w001]\n[Duration: 1m 23s]\n\n     Texas politics\n          -John B. Connally meeting with the President\n          -Ben Barnes\n                -Gubernatorial or Senate race\n                     -John Tower\n          -Preston Smith\n                -John B. Connally’s opinion of Preston Smith\n                -Up for reelection\n          -Ben Barnes\n                -Gubernatorial race\n                     -Tower\n          -John B. Connally meeting with the President, May 14, 1971\n                -Time\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["003-049.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:56:55","tapeEnd":"00:58:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Connally, John B."],"prevCode":"003-048","nextCode":"003-050","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.18,"text":"you"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Richard M. Nixon and Treasury Secretary John B. Connally held a brief telephone conversation regarding official matters. Due to the withdrawal of the primary content of this recording, the specific substantive details of their discussion remain restricted. No definitive policy decisions or action items are available for analysis from this segment.","topics":["Economic policy","Executive communication","John B. Connally","Richard M. Nixon"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:25:04.262Z"},"topicSlugs":["economic-policy","executive-communication","john-b-connally","richard-m-nixon"],"audioDurationSec":83,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-049.mp3","bytes":593425,"durationSec":83.23,"bitrate":57038,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.596Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-049.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-049","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-049","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}