{"conversationCode":"021-003","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-003","startDateTime":"1972-03-06T21:13:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-07T00:14:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Mar-1972","startTime":"4:13 PM","endDate":"6-Mar-1972","endTime":"7:14 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:13 pm and 7:14 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-003 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. 21-3\n\nDate: March 6, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:13 pm and 7:14 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["021-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:02:16","tapeEnd":"00:02:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-002","nextCode":"021-004","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":0.47,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. This brief administrative exchange served as the precursor to a substantive policy or diplomatic discussion between the two men. No other topics were addressed during this short call.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House communications","Presidential scheduling","National security"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:05:04.168Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling","national-security"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-003.mp3","bytes":200619,"durationSec":8.29,"bitrate":193651,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.225Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}