{"conversationCode":"022-008","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-008","startDateTime":"1972-03-24T00:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-24T00:53:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Mar-1972","startTime":"7:47 PM","endDate":"23-Mar-1972","endTime":"7:53 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 7:47 pm and 7:53 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-008 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. 22-8\n\nDate: March 23, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 7:47 pm and 7:53 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["022-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:15:07","tapeEnd":"00:15:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-007","nextCode":"022-009","transcript":[{"start":6.31,"end":7.49,"text":"Coulson, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The brief communication served solely as a logistical request to initiate this connection. No substantive policy matters or tactical decisions were discussed during this exchange.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:17:47.544Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-008.mp3","bytes":228204,"durationSec":9.44,"bitrate":193493,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}