{"conversationCode":"040-061","tapeNumber":40,"conversationNumber":61,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-040-061","startDateTime":"1973-06-13T04:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-13T04:16:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Jun-1973","startTime":"12:12 AM","endDate":"13-Jun-1973","endTime":"12:16 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:12 am and 12:16 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 040-061 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. 40-61\n\f                                             -55-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\nDate: June 13, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 12:12 and 12:16 a.m.\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to Rose Mary Woods.","filename":["040-061.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"040-060","nextCode":"040-062","transcript":[{"start":4.18,"end":4.93,"text":"The gun, please."},{"start":5.23,"end":5.88,"text":"Who was that, sir?"},{"start":5.9,"end":6.92,"text":"Miss Wood, the gun, please."},{"start":6.95,"end":7.51,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an urgent call to his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. The primary objective of the request was to facilitate communication with Woods, though the specific purpose or subject matter of the intended conversation remained undisclosed. The exchange served strictly as a logistical directive for the operator to connect the President with his secretary.","topics":["Rose Mary Woods","Presidential communication","White House operations","Staff management"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:01:47.720Z"},"topicSlugs":["rose-mary-woods","presidential-communication","white-house-operations","staff-management"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"040-061.mp3","bytes":485376,"durationSec":15.09,"bitrate":257266,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.712Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:43.130Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/040-061.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/040-061","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/40/conversation-040-061","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}