{"conversationCode":"019-146","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":146,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-146","startDateTime":"1972-01-28T18:24:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-28T18:35:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Jan-1972","startTime":"1:24 PM","endDate":"28-Jan-1972","endTime":"1:35 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:24 pm and 1:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-146 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. 19-146\n\nDate: January 28, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:24 pm and 1:35 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 659-8]\n\n     Request for call to Joanne Goldwater Ross\n         -Barry M. Goldwater\n\n***********************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Privacy]\n[Duration: 4s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n**********************************************************************","filename":["019-146.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"019-145","nextCode":"019-147","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":9.58,"text":"I'd like to place a call to Joan Goldwater Ross."},{"start":10.3,"end":14.27,"text":"She's the daughter of Senator Goldwater, and she's in Arizona."},{"start":14.31,"end":18.09,"text":"She's going to be married in about a half hour, so if you'll try to get her on the phone, please."},{"start":18.11,"end":18.95,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":19.11,"end":25.68,"text":"All right, thank you, sir."},{"start":25.7,"end":26.98,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an urgent personal call to Joanne Goldwater Ross, the daughter of Senator Barry Goldwater. He requested the operator reach her in Arizona to extend well-wishes prior to her impending wedding ceremony. The conversation functioned solely as a logistical request to facilitate this brief outreach.","topics":["Joanne Goldwater Ross","Barry Goldwater","White House operations","personal communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:48:26.327Z"},"topicSlugs":["joanne-goldwater-ross","barry-goldwater","white-house-operations","personal-communications"],"audioDurationSec":27,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-146.mp3","bytes":650134,"durationSec":27.02,"bitrate":192460,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-146.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-146","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-146","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}