{"conversationCode":"038-006","tapeNumber":38,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-038-006","startDateTime":"1973-04-13T21:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-04-13T22:07:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Apr-1973","startTime":"4:42 PM","endDate":"13-Apr-1973","endTime":"5:07 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 5:07 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 038-006 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 38-6\n\nDate: April 13, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 4:42 pm and 5:07 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Telephone call to John D. Ehrlichman","filename":["038-006.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"038-005","nextCode":"038-007","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":2.34,"text":"Please."},{"start":2.36,"end":3.05,"text":"Mr. Ehrlich, please."},{"start":3.21,"end":4.46,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to his Assistant for Domestic Affairs, John D. Ehrlichman. The brief exchange serves as a procedural step to facilitate a direct line of communication between the two men. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occur during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","White House operations","Communication","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:28:02.220Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","white-house-operations","communication","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"038-006.mp3","bytes":329728,"durationSec":10.21,"bitrate":258272,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.069Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/038-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/038-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/38/conversation-038-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}