{"conversationCode":"021-010","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-010","startDateTime":"1972-03-07T17:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-07T19:15:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Mar-1972","startTime":"12:45 PM","endDate":"7-Mar-1972","endTime":"2:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-010 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. 21-10\n\nDate: March 7, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to William M. Colmer\n\n[See Conversation No. 322-20]","filename":["021-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:35:25","tapeEnd":"00:35:35","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-009","nextCode":"021-011","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.77,"text":"Mr. Calmer, please."},{"start":2.83,"end":4.44,"text":"William Calmer, representative."},{"start":4.83,"end":5.45,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone exchange with the White House operator to request a connection with Representative William M. Colmer. This administrative call serves as the precursor to a subsequent conversation between the President and the congressman. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occur during this brief operator-assisted request.","topics":["William M. Colmer","White House operator","legislative outreach","telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:05:44.307Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-m-colmer","white-house-operator","legislative-outreach","telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-010.mp3","bytes":171780,"durationSec":7.1,"bitrate":193449,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-010","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}