{"conversationCode":"042-051","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":51,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-051","startDateTime":"1971-04-15T23:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-15T23:21:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Apr-1971","startTime":"6:20 PM","endDate":"15-Apr-1971","endTime":"6:21 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 6:20 pm and 6:21 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-051 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. 42-51\n\nDate: April 15, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:20 pm and 6:21 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 249-27]\n\n     Call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["042-051.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:59:04","tapeEnd":"00:59:08","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-050","nextCode":"042-052","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.68,"text":"Please."},{"start":0.7,"end":1.55,"text":"Mrs. Nixon, please."},{"start":1.72,"end":2.55,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a telephone connection to the First Lady, Pat Nixon. The call served as a routine administrative request to facilitate private communication with his wife. The conversation concluded once the operator initiated the transfer.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communication","First Lady"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:18:48.162Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","first-lady"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-051.mp3","bytes":40960,"durationSec":3.11,"bitrate":105494,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-051.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-051","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-051","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}