{"conversationCode":"042-094","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":94,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-094","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 042-094 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. 42-94\n\nDate: May 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 252-38]\n\n     J. Peter Grace's location\n           -England","filename":["042-094.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:26:50","tapeEnd":"02:27:11","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-093","nextCode":"042-095","transcript":[{"start":1.42,"end":1.7,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.1,"end":6.75,"text":"Mr. Grace is out of the country in England, and they expect to hear from him this afternoon."},{"start":6.88,"end":9.09,"text":"Well, it's not an urgent thing."},{"start":9.17,"end":10.53,"text":"I'll call him when he returns."},{"start":10.73,"end":11.19,"text":"Yes, surely."},{"start":11.43,"end":12.74,"text":"He'll be back on May 7th."},{"start":13.52,"end":14.26,"text":"May 7th, that's fine."},{"start":14.28,"end":14.82,"text":"In the country."},{"start":14.88,"end":15.32,"text":"That's right."},{"start":15.4,"end":16.78,"text":"Tell him it's not urgent."},{"start":17.55,"end":18.01,"text":"It can wait."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon communicated with the White House operator to facilitate a call to J. Peter Grace. Upon learning that Grace was traveling in England and unavailable until May 7, the President instructed the operator to delay the outreach. Nixon emphasized that the matter was not urgent and requested that the call be scheduled upon Grace's return to the country.","topics":["J. Peter Grace","White House operations","scheduling","communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:22:49.039Z"},"topicSlugs":["j-peter-grace","white-house-operations","scheduling","communications"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-094.mp3","bytes":255720,"durationSec":21.25,"bitrate":96290,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-094.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-094","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-094","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}