{"conversationCode":"020-031","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-031","startDateTime":"1972-02-02T20:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-02T20:17:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Feb-1972","startTime":"3:06 PM","endDate":"2-Feb-1972","endTime":"3:17 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 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-031 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. 20-31\n\nDate: February 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 318-30]\n\n     Request for a call to John D. Ehrlichman\n         -Camp David","filename":["020-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:02:02","tapeEnd":"01:02:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-030","nextCode":"020-032","transcript":[{"start":2.16,"end":4.48,"text":"Mr. Ehrlichman is at Camp David."},{"start":4.5,"end":5.95,"text":"I wonder if you could get him on the phone for me."},{"start":5.97,"end":6.6,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with John D. Ehrlichman. The primary purpose of the communication was to locate Ehrlichman, who was situated at Camp David at the time of the request. The operator acknowledged the instruction to initiate the call.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","Camp David","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:54:30.723Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","camp-david","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-031.mp3","bytes":193096,"durationSec":7.99,"bitrate":193355,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-031.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-031","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-031","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}