{"conversationCode":"040-051","tapeNumber":40,"conversationNumber":51,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-040-051","startDateTime":"1973-06-13T03:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-13T03:26:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Jun-1973","startTime":"11:17 PM","endDate":"12-Jun-1973","endTime":"11:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:17 pm and 11:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 040-051 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. 40-51\n\nDate: June 12, 1973\n\f                                             -47-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\nTime: Unknown between 11:17 pm and 11:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for telephone call\n          -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin","filename":["040-051.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"040-050","nextCode":"040-052","transcript":[{"start":2.09,"end":2.69,"text":"Operator?"},{"start":3.68,"end":5.97,"text":"Get me an ambassador to bring in, please."},{"start":6.9,"end":7.22,"text":"All right, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an urgent call to Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy F. Dobrynin. This brief exchange served as a procedural request to facilitate a direct diplomatic communication channel. No further details regarding the substance of the intended discussion were recorded during this interaction.","topics":["Anatoliy F. Dobrynin","Soviet-American relations","Diplomacy","White House communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:00:48.833Z"},"topicSlugs":["anatoliy-f-dobrynin","soviet-american-relations","diplomacy","white-house-communications"],"audioDurationSec":16,"audioFiles":[{"file":"040-051.mp3","bytes":512000,"durationSec":15.91,"bitrate":257502,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.407Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:43.128Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/040-051.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/040-051","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/40/conversation-040-051","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}