{"conversationCode":"298-037","tapeNumber":298,"conversationNumber":37,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-298-037","startDateTime":"1971-11-11T22:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-11T23:11:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Nov-1971","startTime":"5:50 PM","endDate":"11-Nov-1971","endTime":"6:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 11, 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 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 298-037 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 298-37\n\nDate: November 11, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 14-54]","filename":["298-037.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:41:19","tapeEnd":"03:41:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"298-036","nextCode":"298-038","transcript":[{"start":1.15,"end":5.15,"text":"How's it going?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, informal interaction with a White House operator while working in the Executive Office Building. The exchange served as a routine check-in regarding the operator's current status and workload. No significant policy decisions or substantive governmental matters were addressed during this brief encounter.","topics":["White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:00:31.533Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-staff"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"298-037.mp3","bytes":235954,"durationSec":5.76,"bitrate":327823,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/298-037.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/298-037","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/298/conversation-298-037","catalogNaId":417185245,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417185245","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}