{"conversationCode":"045-099","tapeNumber":45,"conversationNumber":99,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-045-099","startDateTime":"1973-05-01T21:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-01T21:53:00.000Z","startDate":"1-May-1973","startTime":"5:44 PM","endDate":"1-May-1973","endTime":"5:53 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:44 pm and 5:53 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-099 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. 45-99\n\nDate: May 1, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 5:44 pm and 5:53 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 433-34]\n\n     Request for telephone call\n          -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis\n\f                                             -67-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["045-099.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"045-098","nextCode":"045-100","transcript":[{"start":2.24,"end":3.28,"text":"Robert Lewis, please."},{"start":3.3,"end":4.15,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to Hobart D. “Hobe” Lewis. The exchange served exclusively as a procedural request to initiate this communication with Lewis. No substantive policy matters or further developments were discussed during this brief connection.","topics":["Hobart D. Lewis","White House operations","Telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T07:09:22.409Z"},"topicSlugs":["hobart-d-lewis","white-house-operations","telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"045-099.mp3","bytes":331776,"durationSec":10.24,"bitrate":259200,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.712Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.625Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/045-099.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-099","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/45/conversation-045-099","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}