{"conversationCode":"003-074","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":74,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-074","startDateTime":"1971-05-19T23:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-19T23:55:00.000Z","startDate":"19-May-1971","startTime":"7:50 PM","endDate":"19-May-1971","endTime":"7:55 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 7:50 pm and 7:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-074 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. 003-074\n\nDate: May 19, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:50 pm and 7:55 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["003-074.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:37:36","tapeEnd":"01:37:41","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-073","nextCode":"003-075","transcript":[{"start":0.6,"end":1.86,"text":"Back to the center please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and his advisor. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this brief exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House communications","Presidential correspondence","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:27:22.064Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-communications","presidential-correspondence","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-074.mp3","bytes":60251,"durationSec":3.43,"bitrate":140723,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.600Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-074.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-074","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-074","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}