{"conversationCode":"023-031","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-031","startDateTime":"1972-04-19T17:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-19T17:57:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Apr-1972","startTime":"12:17 PM","endDate":"19-Apr-1972","endTime":"12:57 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:17 pm and 12:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-031 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. 23-31\n\nDate: April 19, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:17 and 12:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 331-23]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["023-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-030","nextCode":"023-032","transcript":[{"start":2.09,"end":4.19,"text":"Mr. Colson, please."},{"start":4.42,"end":5.16,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request for the White House operator to connect him with special counsel Charles W. Colson. This brief communication serves purely as an administrative directive to facilitate a subsequent private discussion between the President and his advisor. No substantive policy matters are addressed in this exchange.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:34:29.354Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-031.mp3","bytes":156106,"durationSec":6.44,"bitrate":193960,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-031.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-031","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-031","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}