{"conversationCode":"020-100","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":100,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-100","startDateTime":"1972-02-17T01:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-17T03:03:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Feb-1972","startTime":"8:14 PM","endDate":"16-Feb-1972","endTime":"10:03 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:14 pm and 10:03 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-100 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. 20-100\n\nDate: February 16, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:14 pm and 10:03 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["020-100.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:16:17","tapeEnd":"03:16:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-099","nextCode":"020-101","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.42,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief administrative exchange served as the necessary logistical step to initiate a direct line of communication between the President and his top aide. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this specific interaction.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Executive staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:00:45.921Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","executive-staff"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-100.mp3","bytes":140433,"durationSec":5.8,"bitrate":193803,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.225Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-100.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-100","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-100","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}