{"conversationCode":"020-008","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-008","startDateTime":"1972-01-31T21:03:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-31T21:04:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Jan-1972","startTime":"4:03 PM","endDate":"31-Jan-1972","endTime":"4:04 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 4:03 pm and 4:04 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-008 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. 20-8\n\nDate: January 31, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:03 pm and 4:04 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 661-7]\n\n     Request for a call to Stewart B. McKinney","filename":["020-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:11:57","tapeEnd":"00:12:04","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-007","nextCode":"020-009","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":4.47,"text":"Congressman McKinney, please."},{"start":4.63,"end":5.43,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Congressman Stewart B. McKinney. This brief exchange served solely as a logistical request to initiate contact with the representative. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["Stewart B. McKinney","logistics","White House operations","Congressman"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:52:25.366Z"},"topicSlugs":["stewart-b-mckinney","logistics","white-house-operations","congressman"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-008.mp3","bytes":141687,"durationSec":5.85,"bitrate":193899,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}