{"conversationCode":"003-098","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":98,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-098","startDateTime":"1971-05-20T23:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-20T23:52:00.000Z","startDate":"20-May-1971","startTime":"7:50 PM","endDate":"20-May-1971","endTime":"7:52 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:50 pm and 7:52 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-098 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. 003-098\n\nDate: May 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:50 pm and 7:52 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator; background noise can be heard in the\noriginal recording.\n\n     Call to John A. Scali","filename":["003-098.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:57:46","tapeEnd":"01:57:53","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-097","nextCode":"003-099","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.62,"text":"Yes sir."},{"start":1.64,"end":3.73,"text":"Scali, John Scali please."},{"start":3.75,"end":4.78,"text":"Thank you Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to place a telephone call to journalist John A. Scali. The brief communication serves solely as an administrative directive to establish contact with Scali. No further substantive policy matters or tactical decisions are addressed during this exchange.","topics":["John A. Scali","White House operations","Communication","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:29:32.428Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-a-scali","white-house-operations","communication","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-098.mp3","bytes":107369,"durationSec":5.98,"bitrate":143665,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.602Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-098.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-098","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-098","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}