{"conversationCode":"037-135","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":135,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-135","startDateTime":"1973-03-17T01:23:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-17T01:34:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Mar-1973","startTime":"8:23 PM","endDate":"16-Mar-1973","endTime":"8:34 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 8:23 pm and 8:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-135 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. 37-135\n\nDate: March 16, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 8:23 pm and 8:34 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n             -Virginia","filename":["037-135.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-134","nextCode":"037-136","transcript":[{"start":2.38,"end":5.03,"text":"Senator Harry Bird of Virginia, please."},{"start":5.11,"end":9.55,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. of Virginia. The brief communication served solely to request that the operator connect the President with the Senator’s office. No substantive policy matters or political strategies were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Harry F. Byrd Jr.","White House operator","Presidential communications","Senator"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:20:56.301Z"},"topicSlugs":["harry-f-byrd-jr","white-house-operator","presidential-communications","senator"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-135.mp3","bytes":92160,"durationSec":14.39,"bitrate":51247,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.084Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-135.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-135","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-135","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}