{"conversationCode":"420-015","tapeNumber":420,"conversationNumber":15,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-420-015","startDateTime":"1973-03-19T17:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-19T18:28:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Mar-1973","startTime":"12:35 PM","endDate":"19-Mar-1973","endTime":"1:28 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 19, 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 12:35 pm and 1:28 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 420-015 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. 420-15\n\nDate: March 19, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 12:35 pm and 1:28 pm.\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 37-153]","filename":["420-015.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"420-014","nextCode":"420-016","transcript":[{"start":0.39,"end":1.3,"text":"Signal, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief contact with the White House operator to request assistance with placing an external telephone call. The exchange served primarily as a functional administrative request to facilitate communication with another party. No substantive policy matters or major decisions were addressed during this interaction.","topics":["White House communications","Presidential operations","Telephone protocols"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T19:07:43.268Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","presidential-operations","telephone-protocols"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"420-015.mp3","bytes":43008,"durationSec":8.28,"bitrate":41553,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:46.739Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/420-015.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/420-015","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/420/conversation-420-015","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}