{"conversationCode":"003-062","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":62,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-062","startDateTime":"1971-05-19T12:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-19T12:52:00.000Z","startDate":"19-May-1971","startTime":"8:35 AM","endDate":"19-May-1971","endTime":"8:52 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 8:52 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-062 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. 003-062\n\nDate: May 19, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:35 am and 8:52 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["003-062.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:14:00","tapeEnd":"01:14:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-061","nextCode":"003-063","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.55,"text":"General Haig."},{"start":2.57,"end":3.58,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. This brief administrative interaction served as the necessary procedural step to connect the President with his Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs for a subsequent discussion. No further policy or strategic matters were addressed during this initial operator exchange.","topics":["Alexander Haig","White House operations","Presidential communications","administrative procedure"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:26:16.118Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-haig","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","administrative-procedure"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-062.mp3","bytes":48511,"durationSec":3.86,"bitrate":100444,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-062.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-062","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-062","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}