{"conversationCode":"039-060","tapeNumber":39,"conversationNumber":60,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-039-060","startDateTime":"1973-06-04T14:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-04T15:19:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Jun-1973","startTime":"10:16 AM","endDate":"4-Jun-1973","endTime":"11:19 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 4, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 11:19 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 039-060 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. 39-60\n\nDate: June 4, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 10:16 am and 11:19 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 442-2]\n\n       Request for telephone call to Stephen B. Bull","filename":["039-060.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"039-059","nextCode":"039-061","transcript":[{"start":0.42,"end":3.24,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.26,"end":3.62,"text":"Please."},{"start":4.16,"end":4.99,"text":"I beg your pardon?"},{"start":5.01,"end":5.13,"text":"Steve."},{"start":5.31,"end":7.02,"text":"Oh, yes."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his aide, Stephen B. Bull. This brief exchange served exclusively as a procedural request to initiate communication with a member of the President's staff. No substantive policy discussions or further developments occurred during this brief operator-assisted call.","topics":["Stephen B. Bull","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:48:07.016Z"},"topicSlugs":["stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"039-060.mp3","bytes":407552,"durationSec":12.63,"bitrate":258216,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.070Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/039-060.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/039-060","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/39/conversation-039-060","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}