{"conversationCode":"410-021","tapeNumber":410,"conversationNumber":21,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-410-021","startDateTime":"1973-03-15T21:24:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-15T21:26:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Mar-1973","startTime":"4:24 PM","endDate":"15-Mar-1973","endTime":"4:26 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 4:24 pm and 4:26 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 410-021 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. 410-21\n\nDate: March 15, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:26 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 43-91]","filename":["410-021.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"410-020","nextCode":"410-022","transcript":[{"start":0.49,"end":1.72,"text":"Admiral Porter, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to be connected with Admiral Dwight Porter. This brief communication serves a purely administrative purpose to facilitate a direct telephone conversation between the President and the Admiral. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occur during this brief interaction.","topics":["Admiral Dwight Porter","White House operator","Communication","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:40:09.511Z"},"topicSlugs":["admiral-dwight-porter","white-house-operator","communication","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"410-021.mp3","bytes":57344,"durationSec":9.95,"bitrate":46121,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:46.739Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/410-021.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/410-021","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/410/conversation-410-021","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}