{"conversationCode":"020-010","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-010","startDateTime":"1972-01-31T23:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-01T00:26:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Jan-1972","startTime":"6:06 PM","endDate":"31-Jan-1972","endTime":"7:26 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 6:06 pm and 7:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-010 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. 20-10\n\nDate: January 31, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 6:06 pm and 7:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n     Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["020-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:13:50","tapeEnd":"00:13:55","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-009","nextCode":"020-011","transcript":[{"start":1.01,"end":1.93,"text":"How many, buddy?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an urgent communication with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to initiate a direct line of contact between the President and his top aide. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this operator-assisted connection.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","telecommunications","administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:52:36.505Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","telecommunications","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-010.mp3","bytes":85889,"durationSec":3.51,"bitrate":195898,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-010","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}