{"conversationCode":"404-002","tapeNumber":404,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-404-002","startDateTime":"1973-01-23T14:03:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-23T14:10:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jan-1973","startTime":"9:03 AM","endDate":"23-Jan-1973","endTime":"9:10 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 23, 1973, 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 9:03 am and 9:10 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 404-002 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 404-2\n\nDate: January 23, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 9:03 am 9:10 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 36-64]","filename":["404-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"404-001","nextCode":"404-003","transcript":[{"start":0.32,"end":1.57,"text":"I can't hear you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to troubleshoot a technical issue with the telephone connection. The brief exchange focused exclusively on the President's inability to hear the operator. No substantive policy matters or administrative decisions were addressed during this failed communication attempt.","topics":["White House communications","Technical difficulties","Telephony","Executive operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:23:15.849Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","technical-difficulties","telephony","executive-operations"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"404-002.mp3","bytes":271464,"durationSec":11.17,"bitrate":194365,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.437Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/404-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/404-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/404/conversation-404-002","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}