{"conversationCode":"003-109","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":109,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-109","startDateTime":"1971-05-21T16:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-21T16:45:00.000Z","startDate":"21-May-1971","startTime":"12:42 PM","endDate":"21-May-1971","endTime":"12:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:42 pm and 12:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-109 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. 003-109\n\nDate: May 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:42 pm and 12:45 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["003-109.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:08:06","tapeEnd":"02:08:13","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-108","nextCode":"003-110","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.38,"text":"Yes, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed 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 were recorded during this short connection process.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:30:31.474Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-109.mp3","bytes":58270,"durationSec":3.33,"bitrate":139861,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.603Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-109.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-109","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-109","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}