{"conversationCode":"019-182","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":182,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-182","startDateTime":"1972-01-20T22:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-20T23:06:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jan-1972","startTime":"5:22 PM","endDate":"20-Jan-1972","endTime":"6:06 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 6:06 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-182 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. 19-182\n\nDate: January 20, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:22 pm and 6:06 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked to the President.\n\n     Status of call placed to Richard E. Berlin","filename":["019-182.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"019-181","nextCode":"020-001","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.41,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.72,"end":3.2,"text":"Mr. Berlin doesn't answer, sir."},{"start":3.26,"end":4.22,"text":"Could I keep you after it?"},{"start":4.94,"end":6.65,"text":"He doesn't answer now, huh?"},{"start":9.49,"end":9.67,"text":"No."},{"start":10.05,"end":10.63,"text":"Okay."},{"start":10.68,"end":17.23,"text":"Well, I guess you can't make it then, but we'll try to see if we can do it again."},{"start":17.65,"end":19.25,"text":"Surely."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon attempted to reach Richard E. Berlin via telephone to discuss an unspecified matter. After the operator reported that Berlin was unavailable, the President instructed the operator to discontinue the current effort but expressed an intent to retry the call later. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["Richard E. Berlin","Communications","Presidential scheduling","Telephone protocol"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:51:42.849Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-e-berlin","communications","presidential-scheduling","telephone-protocol"],"audioDurationSec":20,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-182.mp3","bytes":473337,"durationSec":19.66,"bitrate":192612,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-182.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-182","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-182","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}