{"conversationCode":"258-043","tapeNumber":258,"conversationNumber":43,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-258-043","startDateTime":"1971-06-23T19:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-23T19:05:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jun-1971","startTime":"3:05 PM","endDate":"23-Jun-1971","endTime":"3:05 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 3:05 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 258-043 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. 258-43\n\nDate: June 23, 1971\nTime: 3:05 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n[See Conversation No. 5-143]","filename":["258-043.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:10:49","tapeEnd":"01:10:52","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"258-042","nextCode":"258-044","transcript":[{"start":1.03,"end":1.58,"text":"Thanks, ladies."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief, perfunctory interaction with the White House operator to place an outgoing call. No substantive policy matters or political strategy were addressed during this brief exchange. The conversation served only as a functional request to connect the President to another party.","topics":["White House operator","Telecommunications","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:12:11.642Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","telecommunications","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"258-043.mp3","bytes":152362,"durationSec":3.66,"bitrate":332957,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/258-043.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/258-043","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/258/conversation-258-043","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}