{"conversationCode":"042-005","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-005","startDateTime":"1971-04-06T14:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-06T14:22:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Apr-1971","startTime":"9:20 AM","endDate":"6-Apr-1971","endTime":"9:22 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:22 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-005 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 42-5\n\nDate: April 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:20 am and 9:22 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 245-2A]\n\n     Call to Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield","filename":["042-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:06:04","tapeEnd":"00:06:11","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-004","nextCode":"042-006","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.24,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":1.36,"end":2.45,"text":"Mike Mansfield, please."},{"start":2.63,"end":3.7,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. The brief exchange served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and the legislative leader. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this operator interaction.","topics":["Mike Mansfield","White House operator","Presidential communications","Legislative relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:14:30.806Z"},"topicSlugs":["mike-mansfield","white-house-operator","presidential-communication","legislative-relations"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-005.mp3","bytes":49152,"durationSec":3.84,"bitrate":102413,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/042/conversation-042-005","catalogNaId":417187765,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417187765","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}