{"conversationCode":"020-028","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":28,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-028","startDateTime":"1972-02-02T19:13:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-02T19:14:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Feb-1972","startTime":"2:13 PM","endDate":"2-Feb-1972","endTime":"2:14 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 2:13 pm and 2:14 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-028 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. 20-28\n\nDate: February 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:13 pm and 2:14 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 318-21]\n\n     Request for a call to Harry S. Dent","filename":["020-028.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:54:12","tapeEnd":"00:54:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-027","nextCode":"020-029","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.12,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":1.14,"end":2.75,"text":"Mr. Harry Dent, please."},{"start":2.92,"end":3.66,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Harry S. Dent. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to initiate direct communication with Dent. No further substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Harry S. Dent","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:54:13.836Z"},"topicSlugs":["harry-s-dent","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-028.mp3","bytes":137298,"durationSec":5.65,"bitrate":194371,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-028.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-028","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/020/conversation-020-028","catalogNaId":417192739,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417192739","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}