{"conversationCode":"020-143","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":143,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-143","startDateTime":"1972-02-29T03:46:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-29T03:46:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Feb-1972","startTime":"10:46 PM","endDate":"28-Feb-1972","endTime":"10:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 10:46 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-143 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. 20-143\n\nDate: February 28, 1972\nTime: 10:46 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["020-143.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:19:56","tapeEnd":"03:20:04","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-142","nextCode":"021-001","transcript":[{"start":0.22,"end":6.31,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":6.33,"end":6.51,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an urgent call to National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. This administrative interaction served to facilitate direct communication between the President and his advisor during the late evening. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Henry A. Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communications","Foreign policy coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:04:47.455Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-a-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","foreign-policy-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-143.mp3","bytes":193723,"durationSec":8,"bitrate":193825,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-143.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-143","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-143","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}