{"conversationCode":"020-064","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":64,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-064","startDateTime":"1972-02-08T19:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-08T19:54:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Feb-1972","startTime":"2:51 PM","endDate":"8-Feb-1972","endTime":"2:54 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 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-064 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. 20-64\n\nDate: February 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 320-20]\n\n     Request for a call to Earl B. Ruth","filename":["020-064.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:11:25","tapeEnd":"02:11:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-063","nextCode":"020-065","transcript":[{"start":2.71,"end":3.12,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.26,"end":6.38,"text":"Congressman Earl Ruth of North Carolina, please."},{"start":6.72,"end":7.86,"text":"Earl Ruth of North Carolina?"},{"start":7.88,"end":8.99,"text":"Ruth, yeah."},{"start":9.01,"end":9.65,"text":"Right, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to Congressman Earl B. Ruth of North Carolina. The brief exchange served solely to facilitate this communication, with the President providing the necessary contact information to the operator. No further policy or political discussions occurred during this brief request.","topics":["Earl B. Ruth","Congressman","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:57:31.002Z"},"topicSlugs":["earl-b-ruth","congressman","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-064.mp3","bytes":265194,"durationSec":10.99,"bitrate":192970,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-064.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-064","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-064","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}