{"conversationCode":"030-044","tapeNumber":30,"conversationNumber":44,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-030-044","startDateTime":"1972-10-03T16:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-03T16:59:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Oct-1972","startTime":"12:50 PM","endDate":"3-Oct-1972","endTime":"12:59 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:50 pm and 12:59 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 030-044 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 30-44\n\nDate: October 3, 1972\n\nTime: Unknown between 12:50 pm and 12:59 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 355-3]\n\n       Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["030-044.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"030-043","nextCode":"030-045","transcript":[{"start":0.69,"end":6.12,"text":"Mrs. Nixon, please."},{"start":6.14,"end":7.09,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a telephone connection with First Lady Pat Nixon. The brief interaction served as a formal initiation of a private communication between the President and his wife. No substantive political or policy matters were addressed during this exchange.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House switchboard","Presidential communications","First Lady"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:45:19.048Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-switchboard","presidential-communications","first-lady"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"030-044.mp3","bytes":277106,"durationSec":11.49,"bitrate":192881,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.232Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:39.809Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/030-044.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/030-044","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/30/conversation-030-044","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}