{"conversationCode":"020-088","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":88,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-088","startDateTime":"1972-02-13T23:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-14T00:25:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Feb-1972","startTime":"6:37 PM","endDate":"13-Feb-1972","endTime":"7:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:37 pm and 7:25 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-088 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. 20-88\n\nDate: February 13, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 6:37 pm and 7:25 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for calls to William P. Rogers and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["020-088.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:38:47","tapeEnd":"02:38:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-087","nextCode":"020-089","transcript":[{"start":0.34,"end":7.42,"text":"Operator."},{"start":7.5,"end":10.04,"text":"Come out here, Mr. Hall."},{"start":10.06,"end":10.6,"text":"Oh, my goodness."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate urgent communications with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman. This administrative interaction reflects the President's effort to coordinate key personnel shortly before his historic trip to China. The brief exchange served as a logistical necessity to establish direct contact with his top advisors.","topics":["White House operations","William P. Rogers","H. R. Haldeman","Presidential communication","Executive coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:59:39.727Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","william-p-rogers","h-r-haldeman","presidential-communication","executive-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-088.mp3","bytes":294033,"durationSec":12.19,"bitrate":192911,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-088.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-088","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-088","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}