{"conversationCode":"035-144","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":144,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-144","startDateTime":"1973-01-11T22:03:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-11T22:10:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Jan-1973","startTime":"5:03 PM","endDate":"11-Jan-1973","endTime":"5:10 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 5:03 pm and 5:10 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-144 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. 35-144\n\nDate: January 11, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 5:03 pm and 5:10 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 401-31/402-1F]\n\n       Request for a call to Frederick B. Dent\n            -Dent’s identity\n                   -Secretary of Commerce-designate\n\f                                                -121-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["035-144.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"035-143","nextCode":"035-145","transcript":[{"start":4,"end":6.3,"text":"Fred Dent, the new Secretary of Commerce."},{"start":6.32,"end":7.29,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a telephone call to Frederick B. Dent. The purpose of this interaction was to reach Dent, who had been designated as the new Secretary of Commerce. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["Frederick B. Dent","Secretary of Commerce","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:54:03.336Z"},"topicSlugs":["frederick-b-dent","secretary-of-commerce","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-144.mp3","bytes":367376,"durationSec":15.17,"bitrate":193695,"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/035-144.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-144","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-144","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}