{"conversationCode":"023-139","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":139,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-139","startDateTime":"1972-05-03T19:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-03T19:43:00.000Z","startDate":"3-May-1972","startTime":"3:35 PM","endDate":"3-May-1972","endTime":"3:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:35 pm and 3:43 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-139 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. 23-139\n\nDate: May 3, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:35 and 3:43 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\fThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 335-18]\n\n     Request for a call to John B. Connally","filename":["023-139.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-138","nextCode":"023-140","transcript":[{"start":2.9,"end":4.22,"text":"Secretary Connolly, please."},{"start":4.28,"end":5.33,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request for the White House operator to place a telephone call to John B. Connally. This brief administrative exchange serves as a procedural step to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and the former Treasury Secretary. No further substantive discussion occurs during this interaction.","topics":["John B. Connally","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:44:23.020Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-b-connally","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-139.mp3","bytes":161749,"durationSec":6.68,"bitrate":193728,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-139.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-139","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-139","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}