{"conversationCode":"021-132","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":132,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-132","startDateTime":"1972-03-22T18:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-22T20:24:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Mar-1972","startTime":"1:30 PM","endDate":"22-Mar-1972","endTime":"3:24 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:30 pm and 3:24 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-132 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. 21-132\n\nDate: March 22, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:30 pm and 3:24 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 324-32]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["021a.mp3","021c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:12:39","tapeEnd":"05:12:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-131","nextCode":"021-133","tapeTranscriptFile":"021a.mp3,021c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":11766.05,"end":11767.12,"text":"Hello, Mr. Coulson, please."},{"start":11767.18,"end":11767.94,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."},{"start":11772.82,"end":11773.22,"text":"Hello."},{"start":11773.24,"end":11773.92,"text":"Mr. Coulson, sir."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":11766.045714,"end":11774.045714,"startMethod":"tape_time","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The interaction served as a routine administrative request to facilitate direct communication between the President and a key advisor. The call was successfully placed, connecting Nixon with Colson for a private consultation.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Executive communications","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:16:51.766Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","executive-communications","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021a.mp3","bytes":117251663,"durationSec":7400.66,"bitrate":126747,"missing":false},{"file":"021c.mp3","bytes":74569922,"durationSec":4671.26,"bitrate":127708,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021c.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-132","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-132","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}