{"conversationCode":"042-049","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":49,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-049","startDateTime":"1971-04-15T21:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-15T21:35:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Apr-1971","startTime":"4:34 PM","endDate":"15-Apr-1971","endTime":"4:35 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:34 pm and 4:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-049 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. 42-49\n\nDate: April 15, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:34 pm and 4:35 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 249-19]\n\n     Call to Stephen B. Bull","filename":["042-049.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:58:32","tapeEnd":"00:58:38","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-048","nextCode":"042-050","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.68,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":0.74,"end":2.17,"text":"Mr. Bowe, please."},{"start":2.2,"end":2.62,"text":"Steve Bowe."},{"start":2.68,"end":3.31,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief telephone exchange with the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Stephen B. Bull. The President provided specific instructions to connect him with the individual, identified in the transcript as Mr. Bowe or Steve Bowe. No further policy or substantive matters were discussed during this connection attempt.","topics":["Stephen B. Bull","White House operations","Telecommunications","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:18:37.084Z"},"topicSlugs":["stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations","telecommunications","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-049.mp3","bytes":53248,"durationSec":4.24,"bitrate":100572,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-049.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-049","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-049","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}