{"conversationCode":"021-041","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":41,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-041","startDateTime":"1972-03-10T13:21:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-10T18:00:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Mar-1972","startTime":"8:21 AM","endDate":"10-Mar-1972","endTime":"1:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:21 am and 1:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-041 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. 21-41\n\nDate: March 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:21 am and 1:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 682-8A]\n\n     Request for a call to J. William Fulbright","filename":["021-041.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:24:03","tapeEnd":"01:24:12","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-040","nextCode":"021-042","transcript":[{"start":1.85,"end":2.62,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.38,"end":5.8,"text":"Get Senator Fulbright on the phone for me, please."},{"start":5.82,"end":6.43,"text":"Senator Fulbright?"},{"start":6.89,"end":7.49,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Senator J. William Fulbright. This brief exchange served as a logistical request to facilitate direct communication between the President and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The conversation concluded once the operator initiated the connection process.","topics":["J. William Fulbright","White House operations","Presidential communication","Senate Foreign Relations Committee"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:08:35.369Z"},"topicSlugs":["j-william-fulbright","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","senate-foreign-relations-committee"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-041.mp3","bytes":195604,"durationSec":8.09,"bitrate":193415,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-041.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-041","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-041","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}