{"conversationCode":"021-046","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":46,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-046","startDateTime":"1972-03-13T00:46:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-13T01:05:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Mar-1972","startTime":"7:46 PM","endDate":"12-Mar-1972","endTime":"8:05 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:46 pm and 8:05 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-046 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. 21-46\n\nDate: March 12, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 7:46 pm and 8:05 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     John D. Ehrlichman’s location","filename":["021-046.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:28:07","tapeEnd":"01:28:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-045","nextCode":"021-047","transcript":[{"start":0.86,"end":2.06,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":2.08,"end":2.6,"text":"Mr. President?"},{"start":3.46,"end":3.75,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":3.85,"end":8.92,"text":"Mr. Ehrlichman is taking some friends to the airport, and he's expected back at his residence shortly."},{"start":8.96,"end":11,"text":"And I left word for him to call me."},{"start":11.18,"end":11.48,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":11.5,"end":12.95,"text":"I tried to reach him on the car phone."},{"start":13.13,"end":14.19,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":14.23,"end":14.81,"text":"No hurry."},{"start":14.83,"end":15.75,"text":"All right."},{"start":15.77,"end":15.91,"text":"Mm-hmm."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to determine the whereabouts of John D. Ehrlichman. The President requested that Ehrlichman be instructed to return his call upon arriving home after taking friends to the airport. Nixon noted that the matter was not urgent, but he sought to confirm that his message had been relayed.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","Presidential scheduling","White House operations","Communication protocols"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:09:02.867Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","presidential-scheduling","white-house-operations","communication-protocols"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-046.mp3","bytes":436975,"durationSec":18.15,"bitrate":192559,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-046.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-046","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-046","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}