{"conversationCode":"022-140","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":140,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-140","startDateTime":"1972-04-16T15:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-16T18:00:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1972","startTime":"10:55 AM","endDate":"16-Apr-1972","endTime":"1:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-140 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. 22-140\n\nDate: April 16, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 329-64]\n\n     Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n         -Haldeman’s location","filename":["022-140.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:19:37","tapeEnd":"05:19:52","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-139","nextCode":"022-141","transcript":[{"start":4.33,"end":5.82,"text":"Would you try Mr. Haldeman now?"},{"start":6.68,"end":8.11,"text":"Yes, thank you, sir."},{"start":8.13,"end":8.19,"text":"Oh."},{"start":8.21,"end":8.63,"text":"What's that?"},{"start":8.65,"end":9.15,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":9.17,"end":9.39,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":9.55,"end":12.3,"text":"Yeah, he was at church earlier, and if he is, why, don't bother."},{"start":12.79,"end":13.31,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":13.49,"end":13.67,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a call to his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. The President inquired about Haldeman's location and instructed the operator not to disturb him if he was still attending church services. No further administrative or political business was conducted during this brief exchange.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential scheduling","Communication protocol"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:29:47.840Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-scheduling","communication-protocol"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-140.mp3","bytes":355473,"durationSec":14.75,"bitrate":192798,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-140.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-140","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-140","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}