{"conversationCode":"043-061","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":61,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-061","startDateTime":"1973-02-13T13:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-13T14:34:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Feb-1973","startTime":"8:54 AM","endDate":"13-Feb-1973","endTime":"9:34 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 8:54 am and 9:34 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-061 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. 43-61\n\nDate: February 13, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 8:54 am and 9:34 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 854-13]\n\n       Request for a call to Mrs. James Mulligan","filename":["043-061.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"043-060","nextCode":"043-062","transcript":[{"start":3.93,"end":7.12,"text":"I'd like to talk now to Mrs. James Mulligan."},{"start":7.13,"end":12.14,"text":"She's the wife of the captain of the Navy who came back yesterday."},{"start":12.53,"end":12.99,"text":"All right."},{"start":13.01,"end":17.95,"text":"And you can get the name from the NSA, I think, the address."},{"start":18.04,"end":18.36,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":18.66,"end":19.78,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to connect him with Mrs. James Mulligan, the wife of a recently returned Navy captain. Nixon requested that the operator obtain the necessary contact information for Mrs. Mulligan through the National Security Agency. This call was initiated as part of the President's outreach efforts regarding returning prisoners of war.","topics":["POW outreach","Navy personnel","White House operations","James Mulligan","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:29:35.556Z"},"topicSlugs":["pow-outreach","navy-personnel","white-house-operations","james-mulligan","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":25,"audioFiles":[{"file":"043-061.mp3","bytes":595854,"durationSec":24.69,"bitrate":193041,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.403Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/043-061.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-061","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/43/conversation-043-061","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}