{"conversationCode":"015-003","tapeNumber":15,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-015-003","startDateTime":"1971-11-17T21:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-17T22:23:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Nov-1971","startTime":"4:00 PM","endDate":"17-Nov-1971","endTime":"5:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-003 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. 15-3\n\nDate: November 17, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 293-14]\n\n     Request for a call to John D. Ehrlichman","filename":["015-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:00:50","tapeEnd":"00:00:55","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"015-002","nextCode":"015-004","transcript":[{"start":1.4,"end":2.97,"text":"You can get Mr. Ehrlichman for me, please."},{"start":3.07,"end":4.18,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request through the White House operator to reach John D. Ehrlichman. The brief exchange serves as a procedural step to facilitate an urgent communication between the President and his Assistant for Domestic Affairs. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occur during this brief operator connection.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","Presidential communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:11:15.347Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","presidential-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"015-003.mp3","bytes":106578,"durationSec":4.38,"bitrate":194588,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/015-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/015-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/15/conversation-015-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}