{"conversationCode":"042-064","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":64,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-064","startDateTime":"1971-04-21T19:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-21T19:54:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Apr-1971","startTime":"2:42 PM","endDate":"21-Apr-1971","endTime":"2:54 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 2:42 pm and 2:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-064 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. 42-64\n\nDate: April 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:42 pm and 2:54 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 252-6]\n\n     Call to John A. Scali","filename":["042-064.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:24:46","tapeEnd":"01:24:53","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-063","nextCode":"042-065","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.82,"text":"Yes, he is."},{"start":0.84,"end":1.53,"text":"Scali, please."},{"start":1.59,"end":2.45,"text":"John Scali."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed the White House operator to place a telephone call to journalist John A. Scali. This brief interaction served as the administrative bridge to initiate communication with Scali regarding undisclosed matters. No further substantive discussion took place during this exchange beyond the request to connect the two parties.","topics":["John A. Scali","White House operations","Presidential communications","Journalism"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:20:01.278Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-a-scali","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","journalism"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-064.mp3","bytes":49152,"durationSec":3.81,"bitrate":103284,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-064.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-064","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-064","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}