{"conversationCode":"023-040","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":40,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-040","startDateTime":"1972-04-19T21:41:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-19T21:58:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Apr-1972","startTime":"4:41 PM","endDate":"19-Apr-1972","endTime":"4:58 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:41 pm and 4:58 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-040 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. 23-40\n\nDate: April 19, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:41 and 4:58 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 713-1D]\n\n     Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox","filename":["023-040.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-039","nextCode":"023-041","transcript":[{"start":2.65,"end":3.65,"text":"Yes."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a personal phone call to his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox. This brief communication served strictly as an administrative request to connect the President with his family. No policy matters or substantive political issues were addressed during the brief interaction.","topics":["Tricia Nixon Cox","White House operations","personal communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:35:19.282Z"},"topicSlugs":["tricia-nixon-cox","white-house-operations","personal-communication"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-040.mp3","bytes":104070,"durationSec":4.28,"bitrate":194685,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-040.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-040","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/023/conversation-023-040","catalogNaId":417193365,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193365","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}