{"conversationCode":"021-005","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-005","startDateTime":"1972-03-07T00:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-07T00:36:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Mar-1972","startTime":"7:15 PM","endDate":"6-Mar-1972","endTime":"7:36 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:15 pm and 7:36 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-005 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. 21-5\n\nDate: March 6, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 7:15 pm and 7:36 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["021-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:03:10","tapeEnd":"00:03:16","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-004","nextCode":"021-006","transcript":[{"start":3.25,"end":6.16,"text":"Call some plays."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call with his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The brief communication served primarily as an administrative request to connect the two men for a private discussion. No further substantive policy matters were addressed during this specific exchange.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Administrative communications","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:05:15.021Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","administrative-communications","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-005.mp3","bytes":148583,"durationSec":6.12,"bitrate":194314,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}