{"conversationCode":"033-043","tapeNumber":33,"conversationNumber":43,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-033-043","startDateTime":"1972-11-08T00:57:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-11-08T01:01:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Nov-1972","startTime":"7:57 PM","endDate":"7-Nov-1972","endTime":"8:01 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:57 pm and 8:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 033-043 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.1","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part I","chronReleaseDate":"11-Jul-2007","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 33-43\n\nDate: November 7, 1972\n\f                                             - 43 -\n\n                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY\n\n                                                           Conversation No. 33-114 (cont’d)\n\nTime: Unknown between 7:57 pm and 8:01 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House Operator.\n\nTelephone call","filename":["033-043.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"033-042","nextCode":"033-044","transcript":[{"start":0.5,"end":1.08,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":3.45,"end":3.97,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.99,"end":4.43,"text":"Did you call?"},{"start":5.94,"end":7.12,"text":"No, Mr. President."},{"start":7.14,"end":7.68,"text":"I thought it rang."},{"start":7.86,"end":10.21,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief exchange with the White House operator to clarify whether she had placed a call to his line. The conversation concluded quickly after the operator confirmed that she had not initiated the ring. No substantive policy matters or administrative decisions were addressed during this interaction.","topics":["White House operations","Presidential communications","telephone logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:19:46.474Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","presidential-communications","telephone-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"033-043.mp3","bytes":250390,"durationSec":10.31,"bitrate":194295,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.782Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/033-043.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/033-043","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/33/conversation-033-043","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}