{"conversationCode":"037-133","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":133,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-133","startDateTime":"1973-03-17T01:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-17T01:14:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Mar-1973","startTime":"8:12 PM","endDate":"16-Mar-1973","endTime":"8:14 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 8:12 pm and 8:14 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-133 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. 37-133\n\nDate: March 16, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 8:12 pm and 8:14 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to John W. Dean, III","filename":["037-133.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-132","nextCode":"037-134","transcript":[{"start":1.94,"end":5.32,"text":"John Dean please thank you"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request an immediate telephone connection to White House Counsel John W. Dean, III. This brief administrative interaction served as the initiation of a direct communication line between the President and Dean. No further substantive discussion occurred during this call beyond the request for the connection.","topics":["John W. Dean III","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:20:45.289Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-w-dean-iii","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-133.mp3","bytes":59392,"durationSec":10.25,"bitrate":46339,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.084Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-133.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-133","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-133","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}