{"conversationCode":"018-090","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":90,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-090","startDateTime":"1972-01-17T19:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-17T19:47:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Jan-1972","startTime":"2:43 PM","endDate":"17-Jan-1972","endTime":"2:47 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:43 pm and 2:47 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-090 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 18-90\n\nDate: January 17, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:43 pm and 2:47 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 315-5]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["018-090.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:06:02","tapeEnd":"04:06:08","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-089","nextCode":"018-091","transcript":[{"start":2.98,"end":5.16,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an urgent communication with Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to place a telephone call to the Special Counsel to the President. No further policy or substantive matters were discussed during this brief connection.","topics":["White House operations","Charles W. Colson","Presidential communication","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:05:25.514Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","charles-w-colson","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-090.mp3","bytes":151091,"durationSec":6.22,"bitrate":194288,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-090.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-090","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-090","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}