{"conversationCode":"037-129","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":129,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-129","startDateTime":"1973-03-17T00:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-17T00:41:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Mar-1973","startTime":"7:05 PM","endDate":"16-Mar-1973","endTime":"7:41 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:05 pm and 7:41 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-129 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. 37-129\n\nDate: March 16, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 7:05 pm and 7:41 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["037-129.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-128","nextCode":"037-130","transcript":[{"start":0.3,"end":2.08,"text":"Please."},{"start":2.1,"end":2.83,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":2.87,"end":3.8,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. The brief interaction served exclusively as a logistical request to initiate this communication. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this brief exchange between the President and the operator.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House communications","logistics","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:20:22.262Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-communications","logistics","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-129.mp3","bytes":61440,"durationSec":10.67,"bitrate":46079,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.084Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-129.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-129","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-129","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}