{"conversationCode":"003-158","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":158,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-158","startDateTime":"1971-05-28T00:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-28T01:05:00.000Z","startDate":"27-May-1971","startTime":"8:20 PM","endDate":"27-May-1971","endTime":"9:05 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:20 pm and 9:05 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-158 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. 3-158\n\nDate: May 27, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:20 pm and 9:05 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Calls to Leonard H. Goldenson and Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle","filename":["003-158.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:47:38","tapeEnd":"03:48:01","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-157","nextCode":"003-159","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":8.98,"text":"Would you try to get for me Mr. Leonard Goldenson of ABC in New York, please?"},{"start":9.24,"end":9.87,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":9.88,"end":15.5,"text":"And then another call to get Cardinal O'Boyle in Washington."},{"start":15.52,"end":15.8,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":15.82,"end":17.6,"text":"Archbishop of Washington, please."},{"start":17.62,"end":19.1,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed the White House operator to place two urgent telephone calls to high-profile figures. He requested contact with Leonard Goldenson, the head of ABC, followed by a separate connection to Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle, the Archbishop of Washington. The brief exchange served purely as a request for administrative assistance in facilitating these communications.","topics":["Leonard Goldenson","Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle","ABC","Archbishop of Washington","White House communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:34:58.757Z"},"topicSlugs":["leonard-goldenson","patrick-cardinal-oboyle","abc","archbishop-of-washington","white-house-communications"],"audioDurationSec":20,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-158.mp3","bytes":223211,"durationSec":19.69,"bitrate":90700,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-158.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-158","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-158","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}