{"conversationCode":"003-058","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":58,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-058","startDateTime":"1971-05-18T13:33:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-18T13:34:00.000Z","startDate":"18-May-1971","startTime":"9:33 AM","endDate":"18-May-1971","endTime":"9:34 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:33 am and 9:34 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-058 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. 003-058\n\nDate: May 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:33 am and 9:34 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to William P. Rogers","filename":["003-058.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:09:54","tapeEnd":"01:10:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-057","nextCode":"003-059","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.55,"text":"Secretary Rogers, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The communication serves solely as a request for the operator to connect the President with his Secretary of State. No substantive policy discussions or decisions are recorded during this exchange.","topics":["William P. Rogers","Presidential communication","State Department","Telephone protocol"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:25:53.801Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","presidential-communication","state-department","telephone-protocol"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-058.mp3","bytes":37815,"durationSec":3,"bitrate":100943,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.598Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-058.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-058","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-058","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}