{"conversationCode":"020-004","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-004","startDateTime":"1972-01-31T20:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-31T20:57:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Jan-1972","startTime":"3:55 PM","endDate":"31-Jan-1972","endTime":"3:57 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 3:55 pm and 3:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-004 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. 20-4\n\nDate: January 31, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:55 pm and 3:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 661-3A]\n\n     Request for a call to Robert McClory","filename":["020-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:09:51","tapeEnd":"00:10:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-003","nextCode":"020-005","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4,"text":"Mr. McClory, please."},{"start":4.14,"end":4.9,"text":"Who, please?"},{"start":4.92,"end":6.53,"text":"Bob McClory, Congressman McClory."},{"start":6.55,"end":7.28,"text":"Right, sir."},{"start":7.32,"end":8,"text":"Illinois."},{"start":8.12,"end":8.81,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate an outgoing call to Congressman Robert McClory of Illinois. The primary purpose of this brief exchange was to facilitate communication with the Representative. No substantive political discussions occurred as the President merely provided the operator with the necessary contact information.","topics":["Robert McClory","White House operations","Presidential communications","Congress"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:52:04.453Z"},"topicSlugs":["robert-mcclory","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","congress"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-004.mp3","bytes":211904,"durationSec":8.77,"bitrate":193327,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}