{"conversationCode":"042-084","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":84,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-084","startDateTime":"1971-05-04T17:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-04T17:12:00.000Z","startDate":"4-May-1971","startTime":"1:11 PM","endDate":"4-May-1971","endTime":"1:12 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-084 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. 42-84\n\nDate: May 4, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 251-48A]\n\n     Call to William B. Macomber, Jr.","filename":["042-084.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:21:51","tapeEnd":"02:22:01","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-083","nextCode":"042-085","transcript":[{"start":3.22,"end":9.99,"text":"Could you get me Assistant Secretary William McCumber at the State Department?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs the White House operator to place an outgoing call to William B. Macomber, Jr., the Assistant Secretary of State. The exchange serves as a procedural request to facilitate communication between the President and the State Department official. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occur during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["William B. Macomber Jr.","State Department","Telephone communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:21:54.702Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-b-macomber-jr","state-department","telephone-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-084.mp3","bytes":127517,"durationSec":10.44,"bitrate":97741,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-084.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-084","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-084","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}