{"conversationCode":"037-189","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":189,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-189","startDateTime":"1973-03-21T20:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-21T21:23:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Mar-1973","startTime":"3:49 PM","endDate":"21-Mar-1973","endTime":"4:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:49 pm and 4:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-189 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. 37-189\n\nDate: March 21, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 3:49 pm and 4:23 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 421-12]\n\n       Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["037-189.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-188","nextCode":"037-190","transcript":[{"start":0.39,"end":3.98,"text":"General Haig, please."},{"start":4.22,"end":4.61,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an immediate connection with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to initiate a direct line of communication between the President and his top military aide. The conversation consisted solely of this request for the operator to bridge the call.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","White House communications","Presidential scheduling","administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:25:56.466Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-189.mp3","bytes":69632,"durationSec":11.69,"bitrate":47638,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-189.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-189","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-189","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}