{"conversationCode":"042-023","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":23,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-023","startDateTime":"1971-04-06T18:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-06T22:20:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Apr-1971","startTime":"1:51 PM","endDate":"6-Apr-1971","endTime":"5:20 PM","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 1:51 pm and 5:20 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-023 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. 42-23\n\nDate: April 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:51 pm and 5:20 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Elliot L. Richardson","filename":["042-023.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:24:10","tapeEnd":"00:24:17","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-022","nextCode":"042-024","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.78,"text":"Dr. Richardson, please."},{"start":1.8,"end":2.23,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to be connected with Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Elliot L. Richardson. This brief interaction serves as a routine administrative step to facilitate a direct communication between the President and a cabinet member. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief request for the connection.","topics":["Elliot L. Richardson","Cabinet communication","White House operations","Administrative procedure"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:16:09.448Z"},"topicSlugs":["elliot-l-richardson","cabinet-communication","white-house-operations","administrative-procedure"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-023.mp3","bytes":40960,"durationSec":3.25,"bitrate":100954,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-023.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-023","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-023","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}