{"conversationCode":"255-039","tapeNumber":255,"conversationNumber":39,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-255-039","startDateTime":"1971-06-09T20:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-09T20:48:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Jun-1971","startTime":"4:35 PM","endDate":"9-Jun-1971","endTime":"4:48 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 4:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 255-039 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 255-39\n\nDate: June 9, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:35 pm and 4:48 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n[See Conversation No. 4-100]","filename":["255-039.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:13:22","tapeEnd":"04:13:39","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"255-038","nextCode":"255-040","transcript":[{"start":0.31,"end":0.98,"text":"What is it?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon engages in a brief administrative interaction with the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing communication. This exchange functions as a routine logistical step to connect the President with a desired party. No substantive policy matters or decisions are documented in this short request for assistance.","topics":["White House operations","Presidential communications","administrative logistics","telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:03:44.555Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","presidential-communications","administrative-logistics","telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"255-039.mp3","bytes":281913,"durationSec":6.91,"bitrate":326530,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/255-039.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/255-039","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/255/conversation-255-039","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}