{"conversationCode":"022-096","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":96,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-096","startDateTime":"1972-04-10T17:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-10T17:59:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Apr-1972","startTime":"12:51 PM","endDate":"10-Apr-1972","endTime":"12:59 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Kissinger, Henry A.; White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On April 10, 1972, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:51 pm and 12:59 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-096 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. 22-96\n\nDate: April 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:51 pm and 12:59 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nHenry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator; the President can be heard in the\nbackground.\n\n[See Conversation No. 705-13C]\n\n     Request for call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin","filename":["022-096.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:55:35","tapeEnd":"03:55:44","participantsList":["Kissinger, Henry A.","White House operator","Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"022-095","nextCode":"022-097","transcript":[{"start":0.45,"end":6.6,"text":"May I embarrass you to bring in this Mr. Kissinger?"},{"start":6.62,"end":6.7,"text":"Yes."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Henry Kissinger consulted with a White House operator to facilitate a telephone call to Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy F. Dobrynin. President Nixon was present in the background during the request, signaling his direct involvement in managing diplomatic communication. The primary objective of the call was to establish a channel for high-level engagement with the Soviet representative.","topics":["Anatoliy Dobrynin","Henry Kissinger","Richard Nixon","Soviet-American relations","Diplomacy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:25:49.450Z"},"topicSlugs":["anatoliy-dobrynin","henry-kissinger","richard-nixon","soviet-american-relations","diplomacy"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-096.mp3","bytes":203127,"durationSec":8.41,"bitrate":193209,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-096.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-096","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-096","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}