{"conversationCode":"042-039","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":39,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-039","startDateTime":"1971-04-14T22:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-14T22:26:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Apr-1971","startTime":"5:10 PM","endDate":"14-Apr-1971","endTime":"5:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-039 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. 42-39\n\nDate: April 14, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 248-17]\n\n     Call to Patrick J. Buchanan","filename":["042-039.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:43:20","tapeEnd":"00:43:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-038","nextCode":"042-040","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.54,"text":"Yes, President."},{"start":0.56,"end":1.39,"text":"Your cannon, please."},{"start":1.53,"end":2.5,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator place a telephone call to Patrick J. Buchanan. The operator acknowledged the request and proceeded to facilitate the connection. No further discussion or substantive policy matters were recorded during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Patrick J. Buchanan","White House operations","Administrative communications","Telephone logs"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:17:40.284Z"},"topicSlugs":["patrick-j-buchanan","white-house-operations","administrative-communications","telephone-logs"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-039.mp3","bytes":36864,"durationSec":2.56,"bitrate":115060,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-039.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-039","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-039","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}