{"conversationCode":"020-068","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":68,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-068","startDateTime":"1972-02-09T00:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-09T00:05:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Feb-1972","startTime":"7:05 PM","endDate":"8-Feb-1972","endTime":"7:05 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","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 7:05 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-068 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. 20-68\n\nDate: February 8, 1972\nTime: 7:05 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler","filename":["020-068.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:17:56","tapeEnd":"02:18:06","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-067","nextCode":"020-069","transcript":[{"start":0.18,"end":6.55,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":6.57,"end":7.88,"text":"Hi, Mr. Ziegler, please."},{"start":7.9,"end":8.1,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator connect him to Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief interaction served as a logistical step to initiate a direct line of communication between the President and his primary spokesperson. No further substantive discussion took place during this specific telephone connection.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","Communication","White House operations","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:57:52.010Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","communication","white-house-operations","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-068.mp3","bytes":222562,"durationSec":9.2,"bitrate":193634,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.225Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-068.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-068","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-068","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}