{"conversationCode":"022-059","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":59,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-059","startDateTime":"1972-03-31T00:26:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-31T00:33:00.000Z","startDate":"30-Mar-1972","startTime":"7:26 PM","endDate":"30-Mar-1972","endTime":"7:33 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"xon, 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 7:26 pm and 7:33 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-059 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. 22-59\n\nDate: March 30, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 7:26 pm and 7:33 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Charles W. Colson\n          -Schedule\n          -Return call","filename":["022-059.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:18:50","tapeEnd":"02:19:01","participantsList":["xon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-058","nextCode":"022-060","transcript":[{"start":1.65,"end":3.1,"text":"Hello."},{"start":3.12,"end":4.8,"text":"Mr. Colson is expected home at any moment now, sir."},{"start":4.83,"end":5.91,"text":"I'll have him call you when he gets there."},{"start":5.93,"end":7.48,"text":"Don't hurry."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated contact with the White House operator to facilitate a call with Charles W. Colson. The operator confirmed Colson was expected home shortly and committed to routing the call to him upon his arrival. Nixon instructed the operator not to rush the process, prioritizing the completion of the connection.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","Scheduling","White House operations","Communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:22:26.993Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","scheduling","white-house-operations","communication"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-059.mp3","bytes":254536,"durationSec":10.53,"bitrate":193400,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-059.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-059","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-059","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}