{"conversationCode":"019-044","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":44,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-044","startDateTime":"1972-01-24T20:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-24T20:23:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Jan-1972","startTime":"3:17 PM","endDate":"24-Jan-1972","endTime":"3:23 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 3:17 pm and 3:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-044 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. 19-44\n\nDate: January 24, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:17 pm and 3:23 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 317-11]\n\n     Request for a call to John B. Connally","filename":["019-044.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"019-043","nextCode":"019-045","transcript":[{"start":2.56,"end":3.32,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.34,"end":4.06,"text":"Secretary Conlon."},{"start":4.08,"end":4.41,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally. This brief exchange served solely as a logistical request to facilitate direct communication between the President and the Secretary. No substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this connection attempt.","topics":["John B. Connally","White House operations","Presidential communications","Treasury Department"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:39:02.844Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-b-connally","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","treasury-department"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-044.mp3","bytes":149837,"durationSec":6.17,"bitrate":194379,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-044.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-044","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-044","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}