{"conversationCode":"037-001","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-001","startDateTime":"1973-02-28T13:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-28T13:15:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Feb-1973","startTime":"8:15 AM","endDate":"28-Feb-1973","endTime":"8:15 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 8:15 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-001 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 37-1\n\nDate: February 28, 1973\nTime: 8:15 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 865-1]\n\n       Request for a call to Willie J. Usery, Jr.\n             -Federal Mediation Service","filename":["037-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"036-141","nextCode":"037-002","transcript":[{"start":3.98,"end":10.5,"text":"Would you get me Mr. William Bussery at the Federal Mediation Service?"},{"start":10.7,"end":11.96,"text":"Yes, Mr. Rosen."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a telephone connection with William J. Usery, Jr., the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. This brief administrative exchange served as the precursor to a direct consultation between the President and Usery. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief initial operator contact.","topics":["William J. Usery Jr.","Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service","White House operations","Labor relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:08:29.256Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-j-usery-jr","federal-mediation-and-conciliation-service","white-house-operations","labor-relations"],"audioDurationSec":17,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-001.mp3","bytes":112640,"durationSec":17.47,"bitrate":51590,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.788Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}