{"conversationCode":"043-148","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":148,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-148","startDateTime":"1973-02-21T16:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-21T16:19:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Feb-1973","startTime":"11:17 AM","endDate":"21-Feb-1973","endTime":"11:19 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 11:17 am and 11:19 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-148 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. 43-148\n\nDate: February 21, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 11:17 am and 11:19 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 859-26]\n\n       William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s location","filename":["043-148.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"043-147","nextCode":"043-149","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":1.16,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.18,"end":5.59,"text":"Reverend Graham is en route to his mother's residency there in about an hour and a half."},{"start":5.65,"end":6.35,"text":"May I leave word?"},{"start":7.49,"end":10.74,"text":"Let's see, an hour and a half."},{"start":10.76,"end":11.54,"text":"There's no urgency."},{"start":11.56,"end":13.82,"text":"You tell him I'll place the call this afternoon sometime."},{"start":13.93,"end":14.57,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":14.59,"end":17.43,"text":"Thank you, because I may be out then, and I'll call him back."},{"start":17.53,"end":17.87,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":17.95,"end":19.04,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon coordinated a telephone exchange with Reverend Billy Graham through the White House operator. After learning that Graham was traveling to his mother's residence, the President instructed the operator to hold the call until the afternoon. Nixon concluded the brief exchange by noting he would attempt to reach Graham later in the day despite his own potentially fluctuating schedule.","topics":["Billy Graham","Presidential scheduling","White House communications","Telephone logs"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:37:29.008Z"},"topicSlugs":["billy-graham","presidential-scheduling","white-house-communications","telephone-logs"],"audioDurationSec":25,"audioFiles":[{"file":"043-148.mp3","bytes":594971,"durationSec":24.64,"bitrate":193172,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/043-148.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-148","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/43/conversation-043-148","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}