{"conversationCode":"045-214","tapeNumber":45,"conversationNumber":214,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-045-214","startDateTime":"1973-05-10T22:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-10T22:10:00.000Z","startDate":"10-May-1973","startTime":"6:00 PM","endDate":"10-May-1973","endTime":"6:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On May 10, 1973, White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 6:10 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-214 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. 45-214\n\nDate: May 10, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 6:00 pm and 6:10 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked to the President.\n\n     William E. Timmons’s location\n           -Hugh Scott and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n\f                                           -138-\n\n                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["045-214.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["White House operator","Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"045-213","nextCode":"045-215","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":1.04,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.22,"end":3.84,"text":"Mr. President, he's in Senator Scott's office on the Hill."},{"start":3.9,"end":5.39,"text":"Should I get him there for you?"},{"start":5.45,"end":8.65,"text":"He's at a meeting with General Haig and Senator Scott."},{"start":11.06,"end":15.01,"text":"Uh... All right, fine."},{"start":15.03,"end":15.81,"text":"I'll talk to him there."},{"start":15.83,"end":17.87,"text":"All right, fine."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to connect him to William E. Timmons, who was attending a meeting at the Capitol. Timmons was currently conferring with Senator Hugh Scott and General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. at the time of the request. Nixon ultimately decided to speak with Timmons directly at that location to address the ongoing discussions.","topics":["William E. Timmons","Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","Hugh Scott","Congressional relations","White House communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T07:20:00.237Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-e-timmons","alexander-m-haig-jr","hugh-scott","congressional-relations","white-house-communications"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"045-214.mp3","bytes":747520,"durationSec":23.27,"bitrate":257026,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.713Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.636Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/045-214.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-214","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/45/conversation-045-214","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}