{"conversationCode":"036-095","tapeNumber":36,"conversationNumber":95,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-036-095","startDateTime":"1973-01-24T04:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-24T04:08:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jan-1973","startTime":"11:00 PM","endDate":"23-Jan-1973","endTime":"11:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 11:00 pm to 11:08 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 036-095 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 36-95\n\nDate: January 23, 1973\nTime: 11:00 pm - 11:08 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n       Request for a telephone call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n            -Cancellation\n\n       Telephone call from F. Donald Nixon\n            -John D. Ehrlichman\n            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower","filename":["036-095.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"036-094","nextCode":"036-096","transcript":[{"start":0.64,"end":1.02,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.42,"end":4.4,"text":"Mr. Preston, General Haig is en route back from Philadelphia."},{"start":4.82,"end":5.91,"text":"You can cancel that call."},{"start":5.93,"end":8.71,"text":"Tell him I was calling for information."},{"start":8.73,"end":10.01,"text":"I already got it from other people."},{"start":10.09,"end":10.39,"text":"All right."},{"start":10.41,"end":12.16,"text":"And may I tell you one other thing?"},{"start":12.2,"end":14.9,"text":"Your brother Don called, and we told him we would tell you."},{"start":14.96,"end":17.08,"text":"I can't have him call."},{"start":17.1,"end":19.41,"text":"He can put the call through to..."},{"start":20.03,"end":23.09,"text":"to... Mr. Ehrlichman told us just to let you know."},{"start":23.11,"end":23.86,"text":"Well, that's right."},{"start":24.04,"end":24.94,"text":"But have him call..."},{"start":27.1,"end":30.25,"text":"I cannot take the call from him right now."},{"start":30.69,"end":33.71,"text":"Have him... Let's see."},{"start":34.71,"end":36.62,"text":"Get a hold of Julie and have him call her back."},{"start":36.94,"end":37.66,"text":"Okay."},{"start":37.74,"end":39.3,"text":"Right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to cancel a pending call to Alexander Haig, noting that he had already obtained the necessary information elsewhere. He also addressed a request from his brother, Donald Nixon, explicitly refusing to take the call himself. Nixon directed the operator to refer his brother to his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, instead.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","Donald Nixon","John D. Ehrlichman","Julie Nixon Eisenhower","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:04:05.678Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","donald-nixon","john-d-ehrlichman","julie-nixon-eisenhower","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":44,"audioFiles":[{"file":"036-095.mp3","bytes":1060383,"durationSec":44.07,"bitrate":192505,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.084Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/036-095.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/036-095","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/36/conversation-036-095","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}