{"conversationCode":"025-057","tapeNumber":25,"conversationNumber":57,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-025-057","startDateTime":"1972-06-13T18:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-13T19:30:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Jun-1972","startTime":"2:50 PM","endDate":"13-Jun-1972","endTime":"3:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\"); White House operator; LaRue, Fredrick C.;","description":"On June 13, 1972, H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman, White House operator, and Fredrick C. LaRue talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:50 pm and 3:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-057 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. 25-57\n\nDate: June 13, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:50 and 3:30 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nH. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 342-6A]\n\n     Request for a call to Frederick C. LaRue\n\nThe operator placed the call on hold at an unknown time.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 10/27/2017.]\n\f[Unintelligible]\n[025-057-w001]\n[Duration: 4m 58s]\n\n[The first 1m 19s portion of this withdrawal appears to be blank. However, conversations may\nhave taken place.]\n\n[See Conversation No. 342-6B]\n\nHaldeman requested a call with Frederick C. LaRue, and the operator placed the call on hold at\nan unknown time between 2:50 and 3:30 pm.\n\n[The following 56s portion of this withdrawal appears to be blank. However, conversations may\nhave taken place.]\n\n     Greetings\n\n[See Conversation No. 342-6C]\n\nHaldeman talked with LaRue at an unknown time between 2:50 and 3:30 pm.\n\n[The following 1m47s of this withdrawal is mostly tape noise with occasional muffled\nconversation]\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["025-057.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:26:25","tapeEnd":"02:31:29","participantsList":["Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")","White House operator","LaRue, Fredrick C."],"prevCode":"025-056","nextCode":"025-058","transcript":[{"start":0.12,"end":0.38,"text":"What?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"H. R. Haldeman initiated a telephone call to Fredrick C. LaRue through a White House operator to coordinate communication between the two parties. Although the recording is heavily impacted by significant gaps, tape noise, and unintelligible segments, the interaction reflects ongoing contact between the White House staff and LaRue. Due to the lack of clear audio, no specific policy decisions or substantive action items were captured during this exchange.","topics":["White House administration","H. R. Haldeman","Fredrick C. LaRue","Communication coordination","Historical audio analysis"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:07:40.002Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-administration","h-r-haldeman","fredrick-c-larue","communication-coordination","historical-audio-analysis"],"audioDurationSec":339,"audioFiles":[{"file":"025-057.mp3","bytes":8146441,"durationSec":339.38,"bitrate":192029,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.840Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/025-057.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-057","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/25/conversation-025-057","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}