{"conversationCode":"037-153","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":153,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-153","startDateTime":"1973-03-19T17:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-19T18:28:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Mar-1973","startTime":"12:35 PM","endDate":"19-Mar-1973","endTime":"1:28 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:35 pm and 1:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-153 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. 37-153\n\nDate: March 19, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 12:35 pm and 1:28 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 420-15]\n\n       Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler\n\f                                               - 106 -\n\n                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY","filename":["037-153.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-152","nextCode":"037-154","transcript":[{"start":1.87,"end":3.31,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an urgent connection to Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief interaction served purely as a logistical request to initiate a phone conversation with a key member of the administration. No further policy or administrative matters were discussed during this brief operator exchange.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:22:36.368Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-153.mp3","bytes":57344,"durationSec":9.93,"bitrate":46183,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:42.127Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-153.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-153","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-153","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}