{"conversationCode":"042-059","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":59,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-059","startDateTime":"1971-04-20T19:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-20T19:39:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Apr-1971","startTime":"2:38 PM","endDate":"20-Apr-1971","endTime":"2:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:38 pm and 2:39 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-059 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. 42-59\n\nDate: April 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:38 pm and 2:39 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Tricia Nixon","filename":["042-059.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:07:35","tapeEnd":"01:07:41","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-058","nextCode":"042-060","transcript":[{"start":0.08,"end":0.61,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":0.63,"end":1.52,"text":"Patricia, please."},{"start":2.1,"end":2.79,"text":"Patricia?"},{"start":2.96,"end":3.46,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a personal telephone call to his daughter, Tricia Nixon. The brief interaction served exclusively to facilitate this private communication. No substantive policy matters or administrative actions were discussed during the exchange.","topics":["Tricia Nixon","Personal communication","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:19:33.732Z"},"topicSlugs":["tricia-nixon","personal-communication","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-059.mp3","bytes":57344,"durationSec":4.52,"bitrate":101539,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-059.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-059","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-059","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}