{"conversationCode":"409-004","tapeNumber":409,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-409-004","startDateTime":"1973-02-01T23:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-01T23:51:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Feb-1973","startTime":"6:49 PM","endDate":"1-Feb-1973","endTime":"6:51 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 1, 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 6:49 pm and 6:51 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 409-004 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 409-4\n\nDate: February 1, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 6:49 pm and 6:51 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 43-14]","filename":["409-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"409-003","nextCode":"409-005","transcript":[{"start":0.18,"end":1.98,"text":"Uh..."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. The brief interaction focused solely on technical assistance with the telephone switchboard system to establish a connection. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["White House operations","Telecommunications","Administrative assistance"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:36:27.435Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","telecommunications","administrative-assistance"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"409-004.mp3","bytes":57344,"durationSec":10.77,"bitrate":42582,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.439Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/409-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/409-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/409/conversation-409-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}