{"conversationCode":"037-179","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":179,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-179","startDateTime":"1973-03-21T00:48:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-21T00:52:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Mar-1973","startTime":"7:48 PM","endDate":"20-Mar-1973","endTime":"7:52 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 7:48 pm and 7:52 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-179 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. 37-179\n\nDate: March 20, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 7:48 pm and 7:52 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 422-9]\n\n       Request for a call to John V. (“Jack”) Brennan","filename":["037-179.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-178","nextCode":"037-180","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":4.68,"text":"Yes, Mr. President?"},{"start":4.7,"end":6.56,"text":"Would you get me Major Brennan?"},{"start":6.86,"end":7.34,"text":"All right, thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call to the White House operator to request a connection to Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan. The purpose of the communication is solely to facilitate this specific outreach to the Major. No further dialogue or substantive policy discussions occur during this exchange.","topics":["White House communications","John V. Brennan","Telephone logs","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:25:00.490Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","john-v-brennan","telephone-logs","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-179.mp3","bytes":90112,"durationSec":14.16,"bitrate":50910,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-179.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-179","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-179","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}