{"conversationCode":"037-167","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":167,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-167","startDateTime":"1973-03-20T18:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-20T18:05:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Mar-1973","startTime":"1:00 PM","endDate":"20-Mar-1973","endTime":"1:05 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:00 pm and 1:05 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-167 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. 37-167\n\nDate: March 20, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 1:00 pm and 1:05 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n\f                                             - 117 -\n\n                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY","filename":["037-167.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-166","nextCode":"037-168","transcript":[{"start":3.17,"end":3.96,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4,"end":5.19,"text":"General Haig, please."},{"start":5.55,"end":7.07,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an urgent call to General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. This brief interaction served solely to facilitate communication between the President and his top aide. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this connection.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","White House operations","Presidential communications","Staff coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:23:54.325Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","staff-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-167.mp3","bytes":71680,"durationSec":11.92,"bitrate":48107,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:42.128Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-167.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-167","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-167","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}