{"conversationCode":"020-040","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":40,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-040","startDateTime":"1972-02-03T01:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-03T01:09:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Feb-1972","startTime":"8:09 PM","endDate":"2-Feb-1972","endTime":"8:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","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 8:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-040 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. 20-40\n\nDate: February 2, 1972\nTime: 8:09 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods","filename":["020-040.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:21:17","tapeEnd":"01:21:24","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-039","nextCode":"020-041","transcript":[{"start":0.3,"end":6.85,"text":"Would you ring that switch, please?"},{"start":6.87,"end":7.05,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to place an outgoing call. No substantive policy matters or further developments were discussed during this short interaction.","topics":["Rose Mary Woods","White House operations","Presidential communication","administrative support"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:55:20.182Z"},"topicSlugs":["rose-mary-woods","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-support"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-040.mp3","bytes":169899,"durationSec":7.01,"bitrate":193756,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-040.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-040","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-040","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}