{"conversationCode":"020-079","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":79,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-079","startDateTime":"1972-02-09T13:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-09T13:44:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Feb-1972","startTime":"8:40 AM","endDate":"9-Feb-1972","endTime":"8:44 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:40 am and 8:44 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-079 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. 20-79\n\nDate: February 9, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:44 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 668-8]\n\n     Request for a call to Gen. Walter R. Tkach","filename":["020-079.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:27:16","tapeEnd":"02:27:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-078","nextCode":"020-080","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.09,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.11,"end":5.19,"text":"Dr. Takash, please."},{"start":5.21,"end":6.5,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to General Walter R. Tkach. This brief administrative exchange served as the precursor to a subsequent conversation between the President and his physician. The primary action item was the successful establishment of this direct line of communication.","topics":["Walter R. Tkach","White House operations","telecommunications","presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:58:51.114Z"},"topicSlugs":["walter-r-tkach","white-house-operations","telecommunications","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-079.mp3","bytes":169272,"durationSec":7,"bitrate":193556,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.939Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-079.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-079","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-079","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}