{"conversationCode":"020-072","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":72,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-072","startDateTime":"1972-02-09T00:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-09T00:14:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Feb-1972","startTime":"7:14 PM","endDate":"8-Feb-1972","endTime":"7:14 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 7:14 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-072 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. 20-72\n\nDate: February 8, 1972\nTime: 7:14 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Status of call to John D. Ehrlichman\n          -Ehrlichman's schedule\n                 -Movie","filename":["020-072.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:18:38","tapeEnd":"02:18:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-071","nextCode":"020-073","transcript":[{"start":0.89,"end":1.58,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.6,"end":3.09,"text":"He went to the theater too, sir."},{"start":3.65,"end":5.87,"text":"Oh, I see."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to determine the whereabouts of domestic advisor John D. Ehrlichman. The operator informed the President that Ehrlichman was unavailable because he was attending a movie at a theater. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief administrative inquiry.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","White House operations","Scheduling","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:58:12.812Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","white-house-operations","scheduling","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-072.mp3","bytes":174288,"durationSec":7.2,"bitrate":193756,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.225Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-072.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-072","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-072","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}