{"conversationCode":"023-144","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":144,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-144","startDateTime":"1972-05-03T19:53:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-03T19:56:00.000Z","startDate":"3-May-1972","startTime":"3:53 PM","endDate":"3-May-1972","endTime":"3:56 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 3:53 pm and 3:56 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-144 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. 23-144\n\nDate: May 3, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:53 and 3:56 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 335-23A]\n\n     Request for a call to Robert A. Taft, Jr.","filename":["023-144.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-143","nextCode":"023-145","transcript":[{"start":2.75,"end":4.43,"text":"Senator Taft, please."},{"start":4.63,"end":5.32,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call to the White House operator to request a connection with Senator Robert A. Taft, Jr. The interaction serves exclusively as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and the Senator. No further substantive discussion occurs during this exchange.","topics":["Robert A. Taft Jr.","Telephone communication","White House operations","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:44:49.878Z"},"topicSlugs":["robert-a-taft-jr","telephone-communication","white-house-operations","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-144.mp3","bytes":160495,"durationSec":6.63,"bitrate":193705,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.839Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-144.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-144","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-144","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}