{"conversationCode":"040-088","tapeNumber":40,"conversationNumber":88,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-040-088","startDateTime":"1973-06-14T01:57:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-14T02:01:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Jun-1973","startTime":"9:57 PM","endDate":"13-Jun-1973","endTime":"10:01 PM","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 9:57 pm and 10:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 040-088 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. 40-88\n\nDate: June 13, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 9:57 pm and 10:01 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for telephone call\n          -William F. (“Billy”) Graham","filename":["040-088.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"040-087","nextCode":"040-089","transcript":[{"start":1.85,"end":5.66,"text":"Try Dr. Billy Graham again."},{"start":5.68,"end":10.72,"text":"Now, if he's out to dinner or something, don't bother him, but I tried him yesterday and he was out."},{"start":10.9,"end":12.2,"text":"Try him again now, okay?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a follow-up telephone call to Reverend Billy Graham. The President expressed a desire to reach Graham but explicitly requested that the operator avoid disturbing him if he were out to dinner. This brief exchange served as an administrative directive to re-establish contact after a previous unsuccessful attempt.","topics":["Billy Graham","Presidential communication","White House operations","Scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:04:22.929Z"},"topicSlugs":["billy-graham","presidential-communication","white-house-operations","scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"040-088.mp3","bytes":724992,"durationSec":22.56,"bitrate":257089,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.407Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/040-088.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/040-088","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/40/conversation-040-088","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}