{"conversationCode":"020-083","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":83,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-083","startDateTime":"1972-02-09T16:04:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-09T19:52:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Feb-1972","startTime":"11:04 AM","endDate":"9-Feb-1972","endTime":"2:52 PM","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 11:04 am and 2:52 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-083 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. 20-83\n\nDate: February 9, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 11:04 am and 2:52 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 321-10]\n\n     Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["020-083.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:28:24","tapeEnd":"02:28:30","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-082","nextCode":"020-084","transcript":[{"start":2.81,"end":3.38,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.4,"end":4.56,"text":"You try Hague, please."},{"start":4.74,"end":5.45,"text":"Yes."},{"start":5.47,"end":6.08,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The primary purpose of this brief exchange was to facilitate communication between the President and his Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this administrative request.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","White House operations","Presidential communication","National Security Council"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:59:12.722Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","national-security-council"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-083.mp3","bytes":164884,"durationSec":6.8,"bitrate":194084,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.225Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-083.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-083","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-083","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}