{"conversationCode":"037-046","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":46,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-046","startDateTime":"1973-03-04T16:36:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-04T16:36:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Mar-1973","startTime":"11:36 AM","endDate":"4-Mar-1973","endTime":"11:36 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 4, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:36 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-046 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. 37-46\n\nDate: March 4, 1973\n\f                                                - 32 -\n\n                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY\n\nTime: 11:36 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["037-046.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-045","nextCode":"037-047","transcript":[{"start":3.95,"end":6.06,"text":"Uh, Dr. Kissinger, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. This brief administrative exchange served solely to facilitate direct communication between the President and his advisor. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief request for a connection.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:12:41.673Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-046.mp3","bytes":81920,"durationSec":13.13,"bitrate":49900,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.084Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:42.116Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-046.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-046","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-046","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}