{"conversationCode":"003-146","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":146,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-146","startDateTime":"1971-05-26T23:01:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-26T23:10:00.000Z","startDate":"26-May-1971","startTime":"7:01 PM","endDate":"26-May-1971","endTime":"7:10 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 7:01 pm and 7:10 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-146 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. 003-146\n\nDate: May 26, 1971\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nTime: Unknown between 7:01 pm and 7:10 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 253-036]\n\n     Call to Nancy Hanks","filename":["003-146.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:36:36","tapeEnd":"03:36:44","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-145","nextCode":"003-147","transcript":[{"start":0.77,"end":2.6,"text":"Miss Nancy Hanks, please."},{"start":2.8,"end":3.1,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a call to the White House operator to be connected with Nancy Hanks, the Chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts. The brief exchange serves as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and Hanks regarding arts policy or administration business. No further substantive discussion occurs during this short segment of the telephone recording.","topics":["Nancy Hanks","National Endowment for the Arts","White House communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:33:53.779Z"},"topicSlugs":["nancy-hanks","national-endowment-for-the-arts","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-146.mp3","bytes":49457,"durationSec":4.23,"bitrate":93527,"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/003-146.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-146","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-146","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}