{"conversationCode":"037-202","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":202,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-202","startDateTime":"1973-03-22T00:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-22T00:50:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Mar-1973","startTime":"7:44 PM","endDate":"21-Mar-1973","endTime":"7:50 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 7:44 pm and 7:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-202 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. 37-202\n\nDate: March 21, 1973\nTime: 7:44 pm and 7:50 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to John D. Ehrlichman","filename":["037-202.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-201","nextCode":"037-203","transcript":[{"start":2.04,"end":3.68,"text":"Perlman, please."},{"start":3.7,"end":4.39,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to John D. Ehrlichman. This brief exchange served solely as an administrative step to initiate direct communication between the President and his Assistant for Domestic Affairs.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:27:09.960Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":16,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-202.mp3","bytes":98304,"durationSec":15.68,"bitrate":50155,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-202.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-202","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-202","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}