{"conversationCode":"045-031","tapeNumber":45,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-045-031","startDateTime":"1973-04-27T03:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-04-27T03:07:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Apr-1973","startTime":"10:02 PM","endDate":"26-Apr-1973","endTime":"10:07 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:02 pm and 10:07 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-031 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 45-31\n\nDate: April 26, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 10:02 pm and 10:07 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for telephone call\n          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n\f                                             -21-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["045-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"045-030","nextCode":"045-032","transcript":[{"start":2.14,"end":5.46,"text":"Try Mr. Hall one for me, please."},{"start":5.49,"end":5.69,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to H. R. Haldeman. This brief administrative exchange served solely to facilitate communication between the President and his Chief of Staff. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during the connection.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T07:02:56.201Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"045-031.mp3","bytes":362496,"durationSec":11.2,"bitrate":258925,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.407Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.617Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/045-031.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-031","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/45/conversation-045-031","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}