{"conversationCode":"739-001","tapeNumber":739,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-739-001","startDateTime":"1972-06-21T13:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-21T13:10:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Jun-1972","startTime":"9:02 AM","endDate":"21-Jun-1972","endTime":"9:10 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:02 am and 9:10 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 739-001 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 739-1\n\nDate: June 21, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:05 and 9:10 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 25-95]","filename":["739-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:00:51","tapeEnd":"00:11:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"738-002","nextCode":"739-002","transcript":[{"start":4.77,"end":10.04,"text":"Would you get me Mr. Welch, Mayor Welch in New Orleans?"},{"start":10.26,"end":12.37,"text":"He's the new, the incoming mayor."},{"start":12.39,"end":14.05,"text":"He was the..."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs the White House operator to place a call to Moon Landrieu, the newly elected mayor of New Orleans, whom the President incorrectly identifies as Mayor Welch. The call is intended to establish communication with the incoming administration of the city. No further substantive policy discussions occur as the recording is limited to the President’s request for the operator to initiate the connection.","topics":["Moon Landrieu","New Orleans","Mayoral relations","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T03:37:59.926Z"},"topicSlugs":["moon-landrieu","new-orleans","mayoral-relations","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":19,"audioFiles":[{"file":"739-001.mp3","bytes":781371,"durationSec":19.39,"bitrate":322331,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:57.689Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/739-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/739-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/739/conversation-739-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}