{"conversationCode":"003-072","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":72,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-072","startDateTime":"1971-05-19T23:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-19T23:48:00.000Z","startDate":"19-May-1971","startTime":"7:47 PM","endDate":"19-May-1971","endTime":"7:48 PM","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 7:47 pm and 7:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-072 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. 003-072\n\nDate: May 19, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:47 pm and 7:48 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n            Call to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n\n[This is the original beginning of conversation No. 003-072, which has been merged with","filename":["003-072.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:34:53","tapeEnd":"01:35:01","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-071","nextCode":"003-073","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.41,"text":"Hello."},{"start":0.44,"end":2.84,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":2.86,"end":3.61,"text":"Mr. Harleman, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. The exchange served exclusively as a procedural step to connect the President with his senior advisor. No substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this brief administrative request.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:27:11.006Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-072.mp3","bytes":83413,"durationSec":4.75,"bitrate":140544,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-072.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-072","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-072","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}