{"conversationCode":"043-026","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":26,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-026","startDateTime":"1973-02-05T23:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-06T00:57:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Feb-1973","startTime":"6:15 PM","endDate":"5-Feb-1973","endTime":"7:57 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:15 pm and 7:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-026 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 43-26\n\nDate: February 5, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 6:15 pm and 7:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["043-026.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"043-025","nextCode":"043-027","transcript":[{"start":2.14,"end":3.19,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":3.32,"end":4.57,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical request to establish a line of communication with Kissinger. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:26:20.108Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"043-026.mp3","bytes":254799,"durationSec":10.48,"bitrate":194503,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.403Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/043-026.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-026","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/43/conversation-043-026","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}