{"conversationCode":"042-101","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":101,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-101","startDateTime":"1971-05-06T17:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-06T18:24:00.000Z","startDate":"6-May-1971","startTime":"1:50 PM","endDate":"6-May-1971","endTime":"2:24 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:24 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-101 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. 42-101\n\nDate: May 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:24 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Crosby S. Noyes","filename":["042-101.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:31:53","tapeEnd":"02:32:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-100","nextCode":"042-102","transcript":[{"start":3.54,"end":6.46,"text":"Mr. Crosby Noyes of the Washington Star please."},{"start":6.67,"end":8.44,"text":"Thank you sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator place a telephone call to journalist Crosby S. Noyes of the Washington Star. This brief administrative interaction served as the initiation of a personal communication between the President and the reporter. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this connection.","topics":["Crosby S. Noyes","White House operator","Media relations","Washington Star","Communication logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:23:28.846Z"},"topicSlugs":["crosby-s-noyes","white-house-operator","media-relations","washington-star","communication-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-101.mp3","bytes":113358,"durationSec":9.36,"bitrate":96887,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-101.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-101","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-101","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}