{"conversationCode":"019-177","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":177,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-177","startDateTime":"1972-01-30T22:24:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-30T22:26:00.000Z","startDate":"30-Jan-1972","startTime":"5:24 PM","endDate":"30-Jan-1972","endTime":"5:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:24 pm and 5:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-177 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. 19-177\n\nDate: January 30, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:24 pm and 5:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to George P. Shultz","filename":["019-177.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"019-176","nextCode":"019-178","transcript":[{"start":3.69,"end":6.14,"text":"Mr. Schultz, please, George Schultz."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate an urgent telephone call to George P. Shultz, who was serving as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The brief exchange served exclusively as a procedural request to establish a line of communication with Shultz. No substantive policy matters or further details were discussed during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["George P. Shultz","Office of Management and Budget","White House communications","Administrative procedures"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:51:15.152Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","office-of-management-and-budget","white-house-communications","administrative-procedures"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-177.mp3","bytes":193096,"durationSec":7.99,"bitrate":193415,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-177.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-177","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-177","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}