{"conversationCode":"004-055","tapeNumber":4,"conversationNumber":55,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-004-055","startDateTime":"1971-06-07T18:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-07T18:43:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Jun-1971","startTime":"2:40 PM","endDate":"7-Jun-1971","endTime":"2:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 2:43 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 004-055 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. 4-55\n\nDate: June 7, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:40 pm and 2:43 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 255-14]\n\n     Call to General James D. (“Don”) Hughes","filename":["004-055.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:33:01","tapeEnd":"02:33:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"004-054","nextCode":"004-056","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.18,"text":"General Hughes, please."},{"start":4.2,"end":5.45,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":5.47,"end":5.69,"text":"Hello."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact General James D. “Don” Hughes. The exchange serves solely as a connection request to facilitate communication with the General. No substantive policy discussions occur during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["General James D. Hughes","White House communications","military liaison","administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:45:10.250Z"},"topicSlugs":["general-james-d-hughes","white-house-communications","military-liaison","administration"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"004-055.mp3","bytes":103073,"durationSec":8.5,"bitrate":96973,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.077Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/004-055.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-055","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/4/conversation-004-055","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}