{"conversationCode":"042-081","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":81,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-081","startDateTime":"1971-04-29T19:57:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-29T19:58:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Apr-1971","startTime":"3:57 PM","endDate":"29-Apr-1971","endTime":"3:58 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Acker, Marjorie P.;","description":"On April 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker talked on the telephone from 3:57 pm to 3:58 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-081 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. 42-81\n\nDate: April 29, 1971\nTime: 3:57 pm - 3:58 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Marjorie P. Acker.\n\n[See Conversation No. 251-38]\n\n     Rose Mary Woods’ schedule\n          -Kentucky\n\n     Phone calls for President\n         -President’s schedule\n         -Acker\n         -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["042-081.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:15:52","tapeEnd":"02:16:31","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Acker, Marjorie P."],"prevCode":"042-080","nextCode":"042-082","transcript":[{"start":1.3,"end":2.34,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.36,"end":4.68,"text":"Mr. President, Ms. Woods went away, and here's Mar Jacker, all right?"},{"start":5.48,"end":5.86,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":5.88,"end":6.56,"text":"Fine."},{"start":6.58,"end":7.82,"text":"There you are."},{"start":7.84,"end":7.96,"text":"Hello."},{"start":8.52,"end":8.98,"text":"Yeah, hello."},{"start":9.6,"end":11.29,"text":"Has she gone to Kentucky?"},{"start":11.3,"end":13.03,"text":"Yes, she left around 1 o'clock."},{"start":13.69,"end":14.33,"text":"Oh, yeah, fine."},{"start":14.51,"end":15.07,"text":"You can handle it."},{"start":15.43,"end":26.88,"text":"I want to do the range with the operator that I do not want any calls tonight after this broadcast because I'm going to have dinner, and I've got to go over some wedding things with Mrs. Nixon and Tricia."},{"start":27.2,"end":27.72,"text":"Okay."},{"start":27.84,"end":31.2,"text":"So just you take them and hold them and so forth, and there's something urgent why..."},{"start":31.59,"end":35.79,"text":"You can pass them on to me, but you take the teleoperator to put them through to Haldeman."},{"start":35.81,"end":36.83,"text":"All my calls are to you."},{"start":37.09,"end":37.38,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":37.4,"end":37.6,"text":"Okay."},{"start":37.66,"end":37.88,"text":"Bye."},{"start":37.92,"end":38.34,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with Marjorie P. Acker regarding the departure of his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, for Kentucky. Nixon issued specific instructions to restrict incoming telephone calls for the evening so he could focus on family matters, including preparations for Tricia Nixon’s wedding. He directed Acker to screen his calls and route any urgent matters to H. R. Haldeman.","topics":["Rose Mary Woods","Presidential schedule","Tricia Nixon","H. R. Haldeman","White House communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:21:37.452Z"},"topicSlugs":["rose-mary-woods","presidential-schedule","tricia-nixon","h-r-haldeman","white-house-communications"],"audioDurationSec":40,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-081.mp3","bytes":473839,"durationSec":39.71,"bitrate":95470,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-081.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-081","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-081","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}