{"conversationCode":"043-059","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":59,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-059","startDateTime":"1973-02-13T13:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-13T13:47:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Feb-1973","startTime":"8:37 AM","endDate":"13-Feb-1973","endTime":"8:47 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:37 am and 8:47 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-059 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. 43-59\n\nDate: February 13, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 8:37 am and 8:47 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation 854-5]\n\n       Request for a call to Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson","filename":["043-059.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"043-058","nextCode":"043-060","transcript":[{"start":1.96,"end":4.39,"text":"Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, please."},{"start":4.45,"end":6.55,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed the White House operator to place a telephone call to former First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson. This brief exchange served as a logistical request to facilitate communication between the President and Mrs. Johnson. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief request.","topics":["Lady Bird Johnson","Presidential communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:29:23.859Z"},"topicSlugs":["lady-bird-johnson","presidential-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"043-059.mp3","bytes":275488,"durationSec":11.35,"bitrate":194233,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/043-059.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-059","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/43/conversation-043-059","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}