{"conversationCode":"020-002","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-002","startDateTime":"1972-01-31T19:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-31T19:34:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Jan-1972","startTime":"2:22 PM","endDate":"31-Jan-1972","endTime":"2:34 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 31, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:22 pm and 2:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-002 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. 20-2\n\nDate: January 31, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:22 pm and 2:34 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 661-1A]\n\n     Request for a call to Abraham A. Ribicoff","filename":["020-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:04","tapeEnd":"00:01:11","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-001","nextCode":"020-003","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.9,"text":"Hello, Senator Ribicoff, please."},{"start":4.92,"end":5.59,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff. This request was a brief administrative interaction initiated by the President to facilitate direct communication with the Senator. No further discussion or policy matters were captured during this brief exchange.","topics":["Abraham A. Ribicoff","White House operations","Presidential communications","Senator"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:51:53.597Z"},"topicSlugs":["abraham-a-ribicoff","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","senator"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-002.mp3","bytes":151091,"durationSec":6.24,"bitrate":193845,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/020/conversation-020-002","catalogNaId":417192687,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417192687","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}