{"conversationCode":"022-108","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":108,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-108","startDateTime":"1972-04-11T18:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-11T19:06:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Apr-1972","startTime":"1:14 PM","endDate":"11-Apr-1972","endTime":"2:06 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:14 pm and 2:06 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-108 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. 22-108\n\nDate: April 11, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:14 pm and 2:06 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 329-20]\n\n     Request for call to Richard M. Helms","filename":["022-108.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:17:35","tapeEnd":"04:17:41","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-107","nextCode":"022-109","transcript":[{"start":0.89,"end":4.72,"text":"Did you get Director Helms, please?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request for the White House operator to connect him with CIA Director Richard M. Helms. This administrative interaction serves as the preliminary step to facilitate a direct communication between the President and the intelligence chief. The conversation concludes once the request has been placed.","topics":["Richard M. Helms","CIA","Presidential communication","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:26:54.769Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-helms","cia","presidential-communication","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-108.mp3","bytes":141687,"durationSec":5.83,"bitrate":194424,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-108.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-108","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/022/conversation-022-108","catalogNaId":417193181,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193181","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}