{"conversationCode":"043-189","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":189,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-189","startDateTime":"1973-02-23T20:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-23T20:26:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Feb-1973","startTime":"3:18 PM","endDate":"23-Feb-1973","endTime":"3:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:18 pm and 3:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-189 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. 43-189\n\nDate: February 23, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 3:18 pm and 3:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 413-11]\n\n       Request for a call to F. Edward Hebert","filename":["043-189.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"043-188","nextCode":"043-190","transcript":[{"start":0.34,"end":3.83,"text":"Eddie Hebert, please, Congressman."},{"start":4.05,"end":4.98,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Congressman F. Edward Hebert. This brief exchange served as a procedural request to initiate a direct conversation with the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this connection attempt.","topics":["F. Edward Hebert","Congressional relations","House Armed Services Committee","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:41:08.348Z"},"topicSlugs":["f-edward-hebert","congressional-relations","house-armed-services-committee","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"043-189.mp3","bytes":289648,"durationSec":11.93,"bitrate":194177,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.403Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/043-189.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-189","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/43/conversation-043-189","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}