{"conversationCode":"025-095","tapeNumber":25,"conversationNumber":95,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-025-095","startDateTime":"1972-06-21T13:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-21T13:10:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Jun-1972","startTime":"9:05 AM","endDate":"21-Jun-1972","endTime":"9:10 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 9:10 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-095 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. 25-95\n\nDate: June 21, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:05 and 9:10 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 739-1]\n\n     Request for a call to Louie Welch\n         -Mayor","filename":["025-095.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:07:38","tapeEnd":"04:07:57","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"025-094","nextCode":"025-096","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":3.24,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.26,"end":8.71,"text":"Would you get me Mr. Welch, Mayor Welch in New Orleans?"},{"start":8.84,"end":11.04,"text":"He's the new, the incoming mayor."},{"start":11.06,"end":12.54,"text":"The new incoming one, Mr. President?"},{"start":12.58,"end":13.41,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":13.43,"end":14.31,"text":"New Orleans, surely, sir."},{"start":15.25,"end":16.27,"text":"You can get him there."},{"start":16.33,"end":17.41,"text":"Surely will, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Louie Welch, the incoming mayor of New Orleans. The President clarified that Welch had recently been elected to the office and directed the operator to locate him in New Orleans to facilitate the connection. This brief administrative exchange served as the preparatory step for a direct communication between the President and the municipal official.","topics":["Louie Welch","New Orleans","White House communications","Mayoral relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:11:05.357Z"},"topicSlugs":["louie-welch","new-orleans","white-house-communications","mayoral-relations"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"025-095.mp3","bytes":442617,"durationSec":18.39,"bitrate":192544,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.841Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/025-095.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-095","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/25/conversation-025-095","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}