{"conversationCode":"042-062","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":62,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-062","startDateTime":"1971-04-21T18:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-21T19:31:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Apr-1971","startTime":"1:43 PM","endDate":"21-Apr-1971","endTime":"2:31 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:43 pm and 2:31 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-062 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. 42-62\n\nDate: April 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:43 pm and 2:31 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 252-2]\n\n     Call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["042-062.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:13:43","tapeEnd":"01:13:50","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-061","nextCode":"042-063","transcript":[{"start":0.25,"end":2.15,"text":"Coulson please."},{"start":2.17,"end":2.6,"text":"Yes sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs the White House operator to place a telephone call to Charles W. Colson. This brief interaction serves as a routine administrative request to facilitate communication between the President and his special counsel. No further substantive discussion occurs during this short exchange.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House administration","Telephone communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:19:49.844Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-administration","telephone-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-062.mp3","bytes":36864,"durationSec":2.71,"bitrate":108967,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.403Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-062.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-062","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-062","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}