{"conversationCode":"019-041","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":41,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-041","startDateTime":"1972-01-24T18:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-24T18:51:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Jan-1972","startTime":"1:05 PM","endDate":"24-Jan-1972","endTime":"1:51 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-041 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 19-41\n\nDate: January 24, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 317-5]\n\n     Request for a call to Wilbur D. Mills","filename":["019-041.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"019-040","nextCode":"019-042","transcript":[{"start":1.82,"end":4.93,"text":"Would you try Congressman Wilbur Mills?"},{"start":5.15,"end":7.3,"text":"I think he's in his home in Arkansas."},{"start":7.7,"end":8.51,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":8.53,"end":8.69,"text":"Fine."},{"start":9.05,"end":10.79,"text":"But if he's here, either place, get him for me."},{"start":10.81,"end":11.12,"text":"Right."},{"start":11.13,"end":12,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an urgent call to Congressman Wilbur D. Mills. The President specified that the operator should attempt to reach Mills at his home in Arkansas or at his office if he was currently in Washington, D.C. This request was a precursor to a subsequent conversation between the two men.","topics":["Wilbur D. Mills","White House operations","Congressional relations","telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:38:46.496Z"},"topicSlugs":["wilbur-d-mills","white-house-operations","congressional-relations","telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-041.mp3","bytes":294033,"durationSec":12.2,"bitrate":192822,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-041.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-041","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-041","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}