{"conversationCode":"020-016","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-016","startDateTime":"1972-02-02T13:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-02T14:10:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Feb-1972","startTime":"8:51 AM","endDate":"2-Feb-1972","endTime":"9:10 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:51 am and 9:10 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-016 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. 20-16\n\nDate: February 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:51 am and 9:10 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 664-1]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles S. Gubser","filename":["020-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:42:33","tapeEnd":"00:42:42","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-015","nextCode":"020-017","transcript":[{"start":1.23,"end":5.13,"text":"Congressman Goopser, please."},{"start":5.33,"end":6.25,"text":"California Goopser."},{"start":6.93,"end":7.68,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a telephone call to Congressman Charles S. Gubser of California. The operator confirmed the request to connect the President with the representative. This brief administrative interaction served as the initiation for the President's subsequent legislative outreach.","topics":["Charles S. Gubser","Legislative relations","Communication logistics","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:53:08.887Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-s-gubser","legislative-relations","communication-logistics","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-016.mp3","bytes":198111,"durationSec":8.18,"bitrate":193653,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}