{"conversationCode":"020-130","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":130,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-130","startDateTime":"1972-03-01T02:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-01T02:13:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Feb-1972","startTime":"9:08 PM","endDate":"29-Feb-1972","endTime":"9:13 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:08 pm and 9:13 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-130 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. 20-130\n\nDate: February 29, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:08 pm and 9:13 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Hugh Scott","filename":["020-130.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:25:05","tapeEnd":"04:25:12","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-129","nextCode":"020-131","transcript":[{"start":2.11,"end":3.36,"text":"Senator Scott."},{"start":3.38,"end":7,"text":"Senator Scott, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Senator Hugh Scott. This administrative communication served to facilitate direct contact between the President and the Senate Minority Leader. No further substantive policy discussions were recorded during this brief exchange.","topics":["Hugh Scott","Presidential communications","Senate Minority Leader","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:03:35.075Z"},"topicSlugs":["hugh-scott","presidential-communications","senate-minority-leader","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-130.mp3","bytes":176168,"durationSec":7.27,"bitrate":193931,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-130.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-130","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-130","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}