{"conversationCode":"014-040","tapeNumber":14,"conversationNumber":40,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-014-040","startDateTime":"1971-11-11T20:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-11T20:27:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Nov-1971","startTime":"3:08 PM","endDate":"11-Nov-1971","endTime":"3:27 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:08 pm and 3:27 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 014-040 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 14-40\n\nDate: November 11, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:27 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 298-17]\n\n     Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["014-040.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:08:09","tapeEnd":"01:08:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"014-039","nextCode":"014-041","transcript":[{"start":2.77,"end":6.43,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a personal telephone connection with First Lady Thelma “Pat” Nixon. This brief interaction served an administrative purpose, functioning solely to initiate a private communication between the President and his wife. No substantive policy discussions or governmental decisions were conducted during this exchange.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communication","First Lady"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:59:52.134Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","first-lady"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"014-040.mp3","bytes":207882,"durationSec":6.38,"bitrate":260533,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.322Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/014-040.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/014-040","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/14/conversation-014-040","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}