{"conversationCode":"022-012","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-012","startDateTime":"1972-03-24T14:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-24T17:54:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Mar-1972","startTime":"9:45 AM","endDate":"24-Mar-1972","endTime":"12:54 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:45 am and 12:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-012 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. 22-12\n\nDate: March 24, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:45 am and 12:54 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 326-15]\n\n     Request for call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["022-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:33:55","tapeEnd":"00:34:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-011","nextCode":"022-013","transcript":[{"start":3.41,"end":4.88,"text":"Mr. Colson, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to place a telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The exchange serves solely as a logistical task to facilitate communication between the President and a key advisor. No substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:18:10.785Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-012.mp3","bytes":157987,"durationSec":6.53,"bitrate":193539,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}