{"conversationCode":"003-181","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":181,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-181","startDateTime":"1971-05-28T19:48:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-28T20:51:00.000Z","startDate":"28-May-1971","startTime":"3:48 PM","endDate":"28-May-1971","endTime":"4:51 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:48 pm and 4:51 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-181 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. 003-181\n\nDate: May 28, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:48 pm and 4:51 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 254-004C]\n\nThe President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time.\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\n[End of conferral]\n\n     Call to Alexander P. Butterfield","filename":["003-181.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:31:53","tapeEnd":"04:32:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"003-180","nextCode":"003-182","transcript":[{"start":3.04,"end":4.29,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":4.31,"end":4.79,"text":"Sorry, go ahead."},{"start":5.11,"end":5.94,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":5.96,"end":7.39,"text":"Uh, would you get me a field, please?"},{"start":7.41,"end":8,"text":"Yes, surely."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection. The primary purpose of the brief communication was to request a call be placed to Alexander P. Butterfield. The transcript provides no further details regarding the substance of the eventual conversation with Butterfield.","topics":["Alexander P. Butterfield","White House operations","Presidential communication","Telephone logs"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:37:02.676Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-p-butterfield","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","telephone-logs"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-181.mp3","bytes":225070,"durationSec":9.32,"bitrate":193240,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-181.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-181","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-181","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}