{"conversationCode":"022-052","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":52,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-052","startDateTime":"1972-03-30T16:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-30T17:45:00.000Z","startDate":"30-Mar-1972","startTime":"11:42 AM","endDate":"30-Mar-1972","endTime":"12:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:42 am and 12:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-052 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. 22-52\n\nDate: March 30, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 11:42 am and 12:45 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 697-25]\n\n     Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger\n         -Map Room","filename":["022-052.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:10:04","tapeEnd":"02:10:12","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-051","nextCode":"022-053","transcript":[{"start":0.71,"end":3.65,"text":"Would you ring the map room, please, and ask for Dr. Kissinger?"},{"start":3.81,"end":4.66,"text":"Surely."},{"start":4.67,"end":4.78,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to reach Henry Kissinger in the Map Room. This brief administrative interaction serves as a bridge to a subsequent, more substantive consultation with his National Security Advisor. No further policy discussion takes place during this specific segment of the telephone log.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","Map Room","White House communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:21:49.318Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","map-room","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-052.mp3","bytes":127267,"durationSec":5.23,"bitrate":194737,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-052.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-052","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-052","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}