{"conversationCode":"022-005","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-005","startDateTime":"1972-03-23T19:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-23T22:33:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Mar-1972","startTime":"2:40 PM","endDate":"23-Mar-1972","endTime":"5:33 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 5:33 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-005 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. 22-5\n\nDate: March 23, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:40 pm and 5:33 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 692-7B]\n\n     Request for call to Ronald L. Ziegler","filename":["022-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:08:18","tapeEnd":"00:08:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-004","nextCode":"022-006","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.86,"text":"Please."},{"start":0.88,"end":2.52,"text":"A cigarette, please."},{"start":2.54,"end":3.07,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a follow-up telephone call to Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief exchange served as an administrative request to facilitate communication with his staff. No substantive policy matters were discussed during this short logistical interaction.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","White House operations","Presidential communication","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:17:31.595Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-005.mp3","bytes":84008,"durationSec":3.45,"bitrate":195057,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}