{"conversationCode":"038-124","tapeNumber":38,"conversationNumber":124,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-038-124","startDateTime":"1973-04-20T02:32:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-04-20T02:37:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Apr-1973","startTime":"9:32 PM","endDate":"19-Apr-1973","endTime":"9:37 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:32 pm and 9:37 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 038-124 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. 38-124\n\nDate: April 19, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 9:32 pm and 9:37 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 429-23]\n\n     Telephone call to John D. Ehrlichman","filename":["038-124.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"038-123","nextCode":"038-125","transcript":[{"start":1.6,"end":2.93,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":2.99,"end":10.04,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to John D. Ehrlichman. The brief exchange served primarily to facilitate direct communication between the President and his domestic policy advisor during the height of the Watergate investigations. No further substantive discussion occurred on this specific line.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","White House operations","Communication","Watergate"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:39:00.931Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","white-house-operations","communication","watergate"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"038-124.mp3","bytes":327680,"durationSec":10.09,"bitrate":259719,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.070Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/038-124.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/038-124","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/38/conversation-038-124","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}