{"conversationCode":"042-087","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":87,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-087","startDateTime":"1971-05-05T17:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-05T19:00:00.000Z","startDate":"5-May-1971","startTime":"1:16 PM","endDate":"5-May-1971","endTime":"3:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-087 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. 42-87\n\nDate: May 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 252-31]\n\n     Call to Peter M. Flanigan","filename":["042-087.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:23:09","tapeEnd":"02:23:16","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-086","nextCode":"042-088","transcript":[{"start":1.87,"end":2.29,"text":"Please."},{"start":2.9,"end":5.84,"text":"Could you get me Mr. Flanagan, please?"},{"start":5.9,"end":7.11,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request through the White House operator to be connected with presidential aide Peter M. Flanigan. The brief exchange serves as a procedural step to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and Flanigan regarding administrative or policy matters. No substantive policy discussions occur during this brief administrative request.","topics":["Peter M. Flanigan","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:22:10.808Z"},"topicSlugs":["peter-m-flanigan","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-087.mp3","bytes":90798,"durationSec":7.54,"bitrate":96337,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-087.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-087","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-087","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}