{"conversationCode":"035-059","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":59,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-059","startDateTime":"1973-01-02T19:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-02T20:03:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1973","startTime":"2:51 PM","endDate":"2-Jan-1973","endTime":"3:03 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:51 pm and 3:03 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-059 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. 35-59\n\nDate: January 2, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 2:51 pm and 3:03 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 393-1A]\n\n       Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull\n\f                                               -57-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["035-059.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"035-058","nextCode":"035-060","transcript":[{"start":2.31,"end":3.83,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.85,"end":4.66,"text":"Steve Bowen."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with Stephen B. Bull. The brief communication functioned solely as an administrative request to reach specific staff personnel. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["White House operations","Presidential communications","Stephen B. Bull","Staff coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:46:04.695Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","presidential-communications","stephen-b-bull","staff-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-059.mp3","bytes":296529,"durationSec":12.2,"bitrate":194445,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.449Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/035-059.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-059","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-059","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}