{"conversationCode":"021-037","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":37,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-037","startDateTime":"1972-03-08T18:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-08T19:39:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Mar-1972","startTime":"1:58 PM","endDate":"8-Mar-1972","endTime":"2:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:58 pm and 2:39 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-037 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. 21-37\n\nDate: March 9, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:58 pm and 2:39 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 322-37]\n\n     Request for a call to John N. Irwin, II","filename":["021-037.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:19:36","tapeEnd":"01:19:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-036","nextCode":"021-038","transcript":[{"start":0.91,"end":3.69,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.71,"end":6.97,"text":"Would you get me Under Secretary Irwin, please?"},{"start":6.99,"end":7.17,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Under Secretary of State John N. Irwin II. The primary purpose of this brief administrative exchange was to facilitate communication between the President and the State Department official. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["John N. Irwin II","State Department","White House operations","communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:08:13.806Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-n-irwin-ii","state-department","white-house-operations","communication"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-037.mp3","bytes":238235,"durationSec":9.87,"bitrate":193167,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-037.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-037","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-037","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}