{"conversationCode":"036-138","tapeNumber":36,"conversationNumber":138,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-036-138","startDateTime":"1973-01-31T02:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-31T02:55:00.000Z","startDate":"30-Jan-1973","startTime":"9:43 PM","endDate":"30-Jan-1973","endTime":"9:55 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 30, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:43 pm and 9:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 036-138 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. 36-138\n\nDate: January 30, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 9:43 pm and 9:55 pm\n\f                                               -87-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                            Conversation No. 36-138 (cont’d)\n\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 406-50]\n\n       Request for a telephone call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["036-138.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"036-137","nextCode":"036-139","transcript":[{"start":0.79,"end":3.64,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.66,"end":4.1,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to special counsel Charles W. Colson. The exchange was strictly procedural, serving as the administrative request to connect the President with his advisor. No policy discussions or substantive deliberations occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications","Telephone logs"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:08:06.823Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","telephone-logs"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"036-138.mp3","bytes":286149,"durationSec":11.79,"bitrate":194218,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.084Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.782Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/036-138.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/036-138","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/036/conversation-036-138","catalogNaId":417194711,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417194711","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}