{"conversationCode":"043-143","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":143,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-143","startDateTime":"1973-02-21T15:04:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-21T15:16:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Feb-1973","startTime":"10:04 AM","endDate":"21-Feb-1973","endTime":"10:16 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:04 am and 10:16 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-143 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. 43-143\n\nDate: February 21, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 10:04 am and 10:16 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham","filename":["043-143.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"043-142","nextCode":"043-144","transcript":[{"start":1.85,"end":2.84,"text":"Yes."},{"start":2.86,"end":4.23,"text":"Dr. Graham now, please."},{"start":5.56,"end":5.74,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Reverend Billy Graham. This brief exchange served as a logistical request to initiate direct communication between the President and the prominent evangelist. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["Billy Graham","Presidential communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:37:01.974Z"},"topicSlugs":["billy-graham","presidential-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"043-143.mp3","bytes":293413,"durationSec":12.08,"bitrate":194313,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.403Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/043-143.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-143","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/43/conversation-043-143","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}