{"conversationCode":"003-113","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":113,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-113","startDateTime":"1971-05-21T23:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-22T00:30:00.000Z","startDate":"21-May-1971","startTime":"7:05 PM","endDate":"21-May-1971","endTime":"8:30 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 7:05 pm and 8:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-113 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. 003-113\n\nDate: May 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:05 pm and 8:30 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["003-113.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:15:02","tapeEnd":"02:15:08","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-112","nextCode":"003-114","transcript":[{"start":0.49,"end":2.92,"text":"Thank you, Sir."},{"start":2.94,"end":3.14,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. This brief interaction served solely as an administrative bridge to initiate communication with Kissinger. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operator","communication logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:30:53.300Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operator","communication-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-113.mp3","bytes":54729,"durationSec":3.26,"bitrate":134291,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.604Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-113.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-113","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-113","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}