{"conversationCode":"045-165","tapeNumber":45,"conversationNumber":165,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-045-165","startDateTime":"1973-05-08T14:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-09T11:38:00.000Z","startDate":"8-May-1973","startTime":"10:52 AM","endDate":"9-May-1973","endTime":"7:38 AM","dateCertainty":"estimated","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone on an unknown date, sometime between 10:52 am on May 8, 1973 and 7:38 am on May 9, 1973. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-165 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. 45-165\n\nDate: Unknown between May 8, 1973 and May 9, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 10:52 pm on May 8, 1973 and 7:38 am on May 9, 1973\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                                           -105-\n\n                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                          Conversation No. 45-166 (cont’d)","filename":["045-165.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"045-164","nextCode":"045-166","transcript":[{"start":4.69,"end":5.13,"text":"Miss, please."},{"start":5.15,"end":8.29,"text":"Oh, uh, could you get me Mr. Haldeman, please?"},{"start":8.63,"end":10.26,"text":"Surely, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to H.R. Haldeman. This brief administrative interaction served as a request to initiate communication with the White House Chief of Staff. No further substantive discussion occurred during this recording.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T07:15:28.392Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":16,"audioFiles":[{"file":"045-165.mp3","bytes":509952,"durationSec":15.84,"bitrate":257551,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.407Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.631Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/045-165.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-165","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/45/conversation-045-165","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}