{"conversationCode":"419-031","tapeNumber":419,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-419-031","startDateTime":"1973-03-14T18:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-14T21:09:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Mar-1973","startTime":"1:30 PM","endDate":"14-Mar-1973","endTime":"4:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 14, 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 1:30 pm and 4:09 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 419-031 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. 419-31\n\nDate: March 14, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 1:30 pm and 4:09 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 37-104]","filename":["419-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"419-030","nextCode":"419-032","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":4.6,"text":"Rock, paper, scissors."},{"start":4.62,"end":4.72,"text":"Load."},{"start":4.74,"end":5.18,"text":"Rock, paper, scissors."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon interacted with a White House operator in a brief, informal exchange recorded in the Executive Office Building. The dialogue consists of trivial, non-substantive banter that appears unrelated to official government business or policy. No significant decisions or political developments occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["White House communications","Presidential activities","Administrative operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T19:05:23.951Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","presidential-activities","administrative-operations"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"419-031.mp3","bytes":53248,"durationSec":10.05,"bitrate":42372,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:46.739Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/419-031.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/419-031","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/419/conversation-419-031","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}