{"conversationCode":"020-042","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":42,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-042","startDateTime":"1972-02-03T14:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-03T14:52:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Feb-1972","startTime":"9:18 AM","endDate":"3-Feb-1972","endTime":"9:52 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:18 am and 9:52 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-042 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. 20-42\n\nDate: February 3, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:18 am and 9:52 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to William P. Rogers","filename":["020-042.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:30:21","tapeEnd":"01:30:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-041","nextCode":"020-043","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":7.27,"text":"Secretary Rogers, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacts the White House operator to initiate an outgoing call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The brief exchange serves as a functional request to connect the President with the Secretary for official government business. No further substantive discussion occurs during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["William P. Rogers","Secretary of State","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:55:30.926Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","secretary-of-state","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-042.mp3","bytes":188707,"durationSec":7.79,"bitrate":193684,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.225Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-042.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-042","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/020/conversation-020-042","catalogNaId":417192767,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417192767","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}