{"conversationCode":"020-069","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":69,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-069","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 020-069 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. 20-69\n\nDate: February 8, 1972\nTime: 7:05 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Status of call to Ronald L. Ziegler\n          -Ziegler's schedule\n                 -Parent Teacher Association meeting at St. Agnes School","filename":["020-069.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:18:06","tapeEnd":"02:18:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-068","nextCode":"020-070","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.64,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.72,"end":5.61,"text":"He's gone to a PTA meeting at St. Agnes School, and it'll be about two hours."},{"start":7.64,"end":7.91,"text":"That's right."},{"start":7.92,"end":8.21,"text":"You let it go."},{"start":8.23,"end":9.84,"text":"All right, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon attempted to reach Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler by telephone but was informed that he was attending a Parent Teacher Association meeting at St. Agnes School. The operator estimated that Ziegler would be unavailable for approximately two hours. Nixon ultimately decided not to pursue the contact at that time, instructing the operator to drop the call.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","White House communications","Scheduling","Press Secretary"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:57:57.434Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-communications","scheduling","press-secretary"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-069.mp3","bytes":236355,"durationSec":9.79,"bitrate":193045,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-069.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-069","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-069","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}