{"conversationCode":"410-018","tapeNumber":410,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-410-018","startDateTime":"1973-03-15T19:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-15T20:02:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Mar-1973","startTime":"2:58 PM","endDate":"15-Mar-1973","endTime":"3:02 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 15, 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 2:58 pm and 3:02 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 410-018 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. 410-18\n\nDate: March 15, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:02 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 43-89]\n\f                                            -41-\n\n                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                        (rev. Sept.10)","filename":["410-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"410-017","nextCode":"410-019","transcript":[{"start":0.79,"end":2.09,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon spoke with the White House operator to facilitate a telephonic connection. The brief exchange served as an administrative bridge to initiate a separate call, identified in the records as Conversation 43-89. No substantive policy discussions or strategic developments occurred during this brief operator-assisted contact.","topics":["White House communications","Telephony","Presidential administration","Call routing"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:39:52.526Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","telephony","presidential-administration","call-routing"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"410-018.mp3","bytes":61440,"durationSec":10.41,"bitrate":47201,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:46.739Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/410-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/410-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/410/conversation-410-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}