{"conversationCode":"042-074","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":74,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-074","startDateTime":"1971-04-29T01:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-29T01:35:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Apr-1971","startTime":"9:30 PM","endDate":"28-Apr-1971","endTime":"9:35 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 9:30 pm and 9:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-074 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. 42-74\n\nDate: April 28,1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:30 pm and 9:35 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 252-26]\n\n     Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["042-074.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:56:25","tapeEnd":"01:56:32","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-073","nextCode":"042-075","transcript":[{"start":0.07,"end":0.72,"text":"Okay, dear."},{"start":0.74,"end":1.64,"text":"Harleman, please."},{"start":1.66,"end":1.84,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief request for the White House operator to connect him with his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. This administrative communication serves to facilitate an urgent discussion between the President and his top aide. No further policy or substantive matters were addressed during this specific exchange.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:20:58.403Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-074.mp3","bytes":40960,"durationSec":3.07,"bitrate":106651,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-074.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-074","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-074","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}