{"conversationCode":"020-136","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":136,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-136","startDateTime":"1972-03-01T16:19:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-01T16:19:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Mar-1972","startTime":"11:19 AM","endDate":"1-Mar-1972","endTime":"11:19 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:19 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-136 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. 20-136\n\nDate: March 1, 1972\nTime: 11:19 am\n\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 676-16]\n\n     Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon\n\n     Mrs. Nixon’s schedule","filename":["020-136.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:48:34","tapeEnd":"04:48:49","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-135","nextCode":"020-137","transcript":[{"start":2.36,"end":3.02,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.04,"end":4.17,"text":"Mrs. Nixon, please."},{"start":4.53,"end":6.07,"text":"Mr. President, she is on the phone."},{"start":6.09,"end":6.88,"text":"Do you want me to interrupt her?"},{"start":6.94,"end":7.98,"text":"She's on the phone."},{"start":8.32,"end":8.76,"text":"All right."},{"start":8.78,"end":9.36,"text":"So she hangs up?"},{"start":10.11,"end":10.73,"text":"Oh, no hurry."},{"start":10.75,"end":11.37,"text":"No hurry."},{"start":11.49,"end":12.55,"text":"All right, Mr. President."},{"start":12.73,"end":14.68,"text":"Fine."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a call to First Lady Pat Nixon to discuss her current schedule. Upon learning she was already on another line, the President opted not to interrupt her conversation. No further action was taken, as Nixon instructed the operator that there was no urgency regarding the request.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential schedule","White House operator"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:04:09.556Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-schedule","white-house-operator"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-136.mp3","bytes":365504,"durationSec":15.16,"bitrate":192846,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-136.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-136","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-136","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}