{"conversationCode":"020-060","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":60,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-060","startDateTime":"1972-02-08T19:31:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-08T19:44:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Feb-1972","startTime":"2:31 PM","endDate":"8-Feb-1972","endTime":"2:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:31 pm and 2:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-060 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. 20-60\n\nDate: February 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:31 pm and 2:44 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 320-17]\n\n     Request for a call to Hugh Scott","filename":["020-060.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:05:13","tapeEnd":"02:05:21","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-059","nextCode":"020-061","transcript":[{"start":2.71,"end":3.85,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.87,"end":4.97,"text":"Senator Scott, please."},{"start":5.24,"end":6.03,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott. This brief communication served solely as a logistical request to establish a connection with the Senator. No further substantive policy matters or tactical decisions were discussed during this interaction.","topics":["Hugh Scott","Communication","Senate Minority Leader","Logistics","White House Operator"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:57:09.495Z"},"topicSlugs":["hugh-scott","communication","senate-minority-leader","logistics","white-house-operator"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-060.mp3","bytes":174288,"durationSec":7.2,"bitrate":193756,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-060.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-060","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-060","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}