{"conversationCode":"037-177","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":177,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-177","startDateTime":"1973-03-21T00:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-21T00:48:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Mar-1973","startTime":"7:43 PM","endDate":"20-Mar-1973","endTime":"7:48 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 7:43 pm and 7:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-177 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. 37-177\n\nDate: March 20, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 7:43 pm and 7:48 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 422-6]\n\n       Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull","filename":["037-177.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-176","nextCode":"037-178","transcript":[{"start":4.3,"end":5.18,"text":"Tebow, please."},{"start":5.61,"end":6.36,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone request for the White House operator to connect him with his aide, Stephen B. Bull. The exchange serves solely as a logistical task to facilitate a subsequent conversation between the President and his staff member. No policy matters or substantive political topics were addressed during this short connection.","topics":["Stephen B. Bull","White House operations","Presidential communications","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:24:49.942Z"},"topicSlugs":["stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-177.mp3","bytes":73728,"durationSec":12.39,"bitrate":47617,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-177.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-177","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-177","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}