{"conversationCode":"034-046","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":46,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-046","startDateTime":"1972-12-11T22:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-11T22:37:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Dec-1972","startTime":"5:35 PM","endDate":"11-Dec-1972","endTime":"5:37 PM","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 5:35 pm and 5:37 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-046 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. 34-46\n\nDate: December 11, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:35 pm and 5:37 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 385-15]\n\n       Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["034-046.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"034-045","nextCode":"034-047","transcript":[{"start":1.06,"end":9.97,"text":"Al Haig, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The brief exchange served as a procedural request to facilitate a direct line of communication with his aide. No further policy or strategic matters were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Alexander Haig","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:30:35.897Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-haig","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"034-046.mp3","bytes":359486,"durationSec":14.84,"bitrate":193792,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/034-046.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-046","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/34/conversation-034-046","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}