{"conversationCode":"004-040","tapeNumber":4,"conversationNumber":40,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-004-040","startDateTime":"1971-06-04T21:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-05T00:03:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Jun-1971","startTime":"5:17 PM","endDate":"4-Jun-1971","endTime":"8:03 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:17 pm and 8:03 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 004-040 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. 4-40\n\nDate: June 4, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:17 pm and 8:03 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["004-040.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:09:40","tapeEnd":"02:09:48","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"004-039","nextCode":"004-041","transcript":[{"start":2.97,"end":4.46,"text":"Mr. Holloman, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to connect him with H.R. “Bob” Haldeman. The primary purpose of this brief call was to facilitate communication with his Chief of Staff. No further substantive discussion took place in this recording.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:43:48.536Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"004-040.mp3","bytes":71216,"durationSec":5.63,"bitrate":101120,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.078Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/004-040.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-040","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/4/conversation-004-040","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}