{"conversationCode":"043-085","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":85,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-085","startDateTime":"1973-02-14T22:33:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-15T01:04:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Feb-1973","startTime":"5:33 PM","endDate":"14-Feb-1973","endTime":"8:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:33 pm and 8:04 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-085 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. 43-85\n\nDate: February 14, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 5:33 pm and 8:04 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis","filename":["043-085.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"043-084","nextCode":"043-086","transcript":[{"start":8.37,"end":9.84,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":9.86,"end":13.03,"text":"Would you try Mr. Hobart Lewis in New York, please?"},{"start":13.05,"end":16.15,"text":"Certainly."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Hobart D. Lewis, the president and editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest, at his office in New York. The brief exchange served purely administrative purposes to facilitate contact between the President and the media executive. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief request for operator assistance.","topics":["Presidential communication","Hobart D. Lewis","White House operations","Media relations","Reader's Digest"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:31:50.144Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communication","hobart-d-lewis","white-house-operations","media-relations","readers-digest"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"043-085.mp3","bytes":505574,"durationSec":20.95,"bitrate":193090,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/043-085.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-085","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/43/conversation-043-085","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}