{"conversationCode":"022-154","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":154,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-154","startDateTime":"1972-04-16T19:36:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-16T20:19:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1972","startTime":"2:36 PM","endDate":"16-Apr-1972","endTime":"3:19 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and 3:19 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-154 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. 22-154\n\nDate: April 16, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:36 pm and 3:19 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["022-154.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:54:56","tapeEnd":"05:55:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"022-153","nextCode":"022-155","transcript":[{"start":0.25,"end":0.39,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an urgent connection with his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical request to initiate a follow-up conversation with Haldeman. No substantive policy matters or additional decisions were recorded during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Logistics","Communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:31:04.439Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","logistics","communication"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-154.mp3","bytes":215039,"durationSec":8.9,"bitrate":193293,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-154.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-154","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/022/conversation-022-154","catalogNaId":417193273,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193273","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}