{"conversationCode":"038-077","tapeNumber":38,"conversationNumber":77,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-038-077","startDateTime":"1973-04-16T21:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-04-17T01:45:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1973","startTime":"4:55 PM","endDate":"16-Apr-1973","endTime":"8:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On April 16, 1973, White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 8:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 038-077 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. 38-77\n\nDate: April 16, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 4:55 pm and 8:45 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n\n     Telephone call to John D. Ehrlichman","filename":["038-077.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["White House operator","Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"038-076","nextCode":"038-078","transcript":[{"start":0.59,"end":1.87,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.89,"end":4.14,"text":"Mr. Haldeman is on page, Mr. President."},{"start":4.16,"end":5.21,"text":"Do you want us to reach him?"},{"start":5.23,"end":6.55,"text":"No, you can try to reach him."},{"start":6.58,"end":14.11,"text":"All right, thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to initiate telephone calls to his top aides, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman. The brief exchange served as a logistical step to facilitate communication with these key advisors during a period of escalating pressure surrounding the Watergate scandal. No further substantive dialogue was captured in this recording segment.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","John D. Ehrlichman","White House communications","Watergate","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:34:43.816Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","john-d-ehrlichman","white-house-communications","watergate","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"038-077.mp3","bytes":454656,"durationSec":14.07,"bitrate":258572,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.070Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/038-077.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/038-077","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/38/conversation-038-077","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}