{"conversationCode":"034-037","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":37,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-037","startDateTime":"1972-12-11T16:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-11T16:42:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Dec-1972","startTime":"11:25 AM","endDate":"11-Dec-1972","endTime":"11:42 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","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 an unknown time between 11:25 am and 11:42 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-037 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. 34-37\n\nDate: December 11, 1972\nTime: Unk between 11:25 am & 11:42 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 819-2E]\n\n       Request for a call to McDill (“Huck”) Boyd\n            -Call back instruction\n\f                                            -34-\n\n                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["034-037.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"034-036","nextCode":"034-038","transcript":[{"start":0.64,"end":1.66,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.68,"end":5.35,"text":"Mr. President, Mr. Huck Boyd is out of the office for about a half hour."},{"start":5.77,"end":6.15,"text":"Call back."},{"start":6.43,"end":7.22,"text":"Can I have him called in?"},{"start":7.76,"end":8.02,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":8.04,"end":11.51,"text":"All right, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon attempted to reach Republican operative McDill “Huck” Boyd via the White House operator. Upon learning that Boyd was temporarily unavailable, the President instructed the operator to have him return the call. No substantive political or policy matters were discussed during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["Huck Boyd","Communication","Presidential Scheduling","White House Operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:29:45.822Z"},"topicSlugs":["huck-boyd","communication","presidential-scheduling","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":17,"audioFiles":[{"file":"034-037.mp3","bytes":399614,"durationSec":16.52,"bitrate":193517,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.142Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/034-037.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-037","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/034/conversation-034-037","catalogNaId":647841678,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/647841678","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}