{"conversationCode":"037-175","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":175,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-175","startDateTime":"1973-03-21T00:26:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-21T00:29:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Mar-1973","startTime":"7:26 PM","endDate":"20-Mar-1973","endTime":"7:29 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 7:26 pm and 7:29 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-175 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. 37-175\n\nDate: March 20, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 7:26 pm and 7:29 pm\n\f                                               - 122 -\n\n                               NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY\n\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 422-4]\n\n       Request for a call to John W. Dean, III","filename":["037-175.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-174","nextCode":"037-176","transcript":[{"start":2.39,"end":3.7,"text":"John Dean, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to White House Counsel John W. Dean, III. This brief exchange served solely as a logistical request to connect the President with Dean. No substantive policy or political discussions occurred during this operator-assisted connection.","topics":["John W. Dean III","White House operations","Presidential communications","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:24:38.627Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-w-dean-iii","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-175.mp3","bytes":63488,"durationSec":10.63,"bitrate":47795,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:42.129Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-175.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-175","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-175","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}