{"conversationCode":"003-139","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":139,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-139","startDateTime":"1971-05-26T22:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-26T22:33:00.000Z","startDate":"26-May-1971","startTime":"6:17 PM","endDate":"26-May-1971","endTime":"6:33 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:17 pm and 6:33 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-139 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. 003-139\n\nDate: May 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:17 pm and 6:33 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 253-027]\n\n     Call to J. Edgar Hoover","filename":["003-139.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:28:18","tapeEnd":"03:28:35","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-138","nextCode":"003-140","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.76,"text":"Director Hoover, please."},{"start":2.19,"end":2.53,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":3.09,"end":3.9,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The conversation serves solely as a procedural request to connect with the Director. No further substantive discussion occurs during this short segment of the recording.","topics":["J. Edgar Hoover","FBI","Telephone communication","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:33:15.080Z"},"topicSlugs":["j-edgar-hoover","fbi","telephone-communication","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-139.mp3","bytes":49563,"durationSec":4.29,"bitrate":92380,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.607Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-139.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-139","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-139","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}