{"conversationCode":"041-040","tapeNumber":41,"conversationNumber":40,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-041-040","startDateTime":"1973-06-22T17:41:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-22T17:45:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Jun-1973","startTime":"1:41 PM","endDate":"22-Jun-1973","endTime":"1:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:41 pm and 1:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 041-040 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. 41-40\n\nDate: June 22, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 1:41 pm and 1:45 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\f                                               -23-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                            Conversation No. 41-40 (cont’d)\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 448-2]\n\n     Request for telephone call\n          -Ronald L. Zeigler","filename":["041-040.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"041-039","nextCode":"041-041","transcript":[{"start":1.69,"end":3.72,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.74,"end":4.79,"text":"Cigarette, please."},{"start":4.81,"end":5.21,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief interaction focused solely on facilitating this connection for the President. No further policy or administrative decisions were documented during this short communication.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:11:19.942Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"041-040.mp3","bytes":387072,"durationSec":11.97,"bitrate":258622,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.407Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:43.366Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/041-040.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/041-040","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/41/conversation-041-040","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}