{"conversationCode":"035-142","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":142,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-142","startDateTime":"1973-01-11T21:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-11T22:02:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Jan-1973","startTime":"4:35 PM","endDate":"11-Jan-1973","endTime":"5:02 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 5:02 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-142 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. 35-142\n\nDate: January 11, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 4:35 pm and 5:02 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 401-31/402-1D]\n\n       Request for a call to Claude S. Brinegar\n            -Brinegar’s identity\n                   -Secretary of Transportation-designate\n\f                                                -120-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["035-142.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"035-141","nextCode":"035-143","transcript":[{"start":4.28,"end":6.96,"text":"Please, the new Secretary of Transportation."},{"start":7.14,"end":8.17,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone call to Claude S. Brinegar. The primary purpose of the communication was to connect with Brinegar, who was serving as the Secretary of Transportation-designate at the time. This exchange served as a logistical step in the President’s administrative coordination during the transition period.","topics":["Claude S. Brinegar","Department of Transportation","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:53:52.660Z"},"topicSlugs":["claude-s-brinegar","department-of-transportation","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-142.mp3","bytes":361733,"durationSec":14.92,"bitrate":193958,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.542Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.458Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/035-142.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-142","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-142","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}