{"conversationCode":"042-070","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":70,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-070","startDateTime":"1971-04-29T00:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-29T01:08:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Apr-1971","startTime":"8:14 PM","endDate":"28-Apr-1971","endTime":"9:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:14 pm and 9:08 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-070 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. 42-70\n\nDate: April 28, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:14 pm and 9:08 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 252-22]\n\n     Call to John D. Ehrlichman","filename":["042-070.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:46:58","tapeEnd":"01:47:03","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-069","nextCode":"042-071","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.07,"text":"Ehrlichman please."},{"start":1.25,"end":1.84,"text":"Yes sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to be connected with John D. Ehrlichman. The exchange serves solely as a logistical request to facilitate communication between the President and his Assistant for Domestic Affairs. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occur during this brief interaction.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","White House operations","logistics","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:20:36.107Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","white-house-operations","logistics","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-070.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/042-070.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-070","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-070","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}