{"conversationCode":"034-036","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":36,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-036","startDateTime":"1972-12-11T16:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-11T16:25:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Dec-1972","startTime":"11:25 AM","endDate":"11-Dec-1972","endTime":"11:25 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:25 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-036 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.2","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part II","chronReleaseDate":"2-Dec-2008","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 34-36\n\nDate: December 11, 1972\nTime: 11:25 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 819-2D]\n\n       Request for a call to McDill \"Huck\" Boyd\n            -Phillipsburg Review\n                   -Phillipbsburg, Kansas","filename":["034-036.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"034-035","nextCode":"034-037","transcript":[{"start":0.35,"end":5.54,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."},{"start":5.56,"end":8.29,"text":"Mr. Boyd, McDowell Boyd."},{"start":8.39,"end":8.73,"text":"What is it?"},{"start":10.63,"end":12.63,"text":"Phillipsburg, Kansas."},{"start":12.65,"end":14.6,"text":"Phillipsburg, Kansas Review."},{"start":14.68,"end":15.94,"text":"That's a newspaper out there."},{"start":16.76,"end":18.73,"text":"And his name is Huck Boyd."},{"start":19.39,"end":19.73,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":19.91,"end":20.51,"text":"All right."},{"start":20.61,"end":20.95,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":22.51,"end":22.71,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to facilitate a telephone call to McDill \"Huck\" Boyd, a newspaper publisher for the Phillipsburg Review in Kansas. The primary purpose of the brief interaction was to provide the operator with the necessary contact details to initiate this communication. No further business was discussed during this administrative exchange.","topics":["McDill Boyd","Phillipsburg Review","White House communications","presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:29:40.447Z"},"topicSlugs":["mcdill-boyd","phillipsburg-review","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":28,"audioFiles":[{"file":"034-036.mp3","bytes":666017,"durationSec":27.61,"bitrate":192955,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/034-036.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-036","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/34/conversation-034-036","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}