{"conversationCode":"020-020","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-020","startDateTime":"1972-02-02T18:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-02T18:48:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Feb-1972","startTime":"1:40 PM","endDate":"2-Feb-1972","endTime":"1:48 PM","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 1:40 pm and 1:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-020 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. 20-20\n\nDate: February 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:48 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 318-9]\n\n     Request for a call to Peter M. Flanigan","filename":["020-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:44:35","tapeEnd":"00:44:42","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-019","nextCode":"020-021","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":5.42,"text":"Excuse me, Mr. Peter Feinigan, please."},{"start":5.44,"end":5.64,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone request with the White House operator to be connected with Peter M. Flanigan. The exchange serves solely to facilitate administrative communication between the President and his Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs. No further substantive discussion occurs during this short segment.","topics":["Peter M. Flanigan","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:53:30.570Z"},"topicSlugs":["peter-m-flanigan","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-020.mp3","bytes":169899,"durationSec":7.01,"bitrate":193756,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}