{"conversationCode":"023-047","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":47,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-047","startDateTime":"1972-04-20T16:46:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-20T16:48:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Apr-1972","startTime":"11:46 AM","endDate":"20-Apr-1972","endTime":"11:48 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:46 am and 11:48 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-047 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. 23-47\n\nDate: April 20, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 11:46 and 11:48 am\n\fLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 714-10A]\n\n     Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["023-047.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-046","nextCode":"023-048","transcript":[{"start":3.56,"end":4.55,"text":"Mrs. Nixon please."},{"start":4.57,"end":5.67,"text":"Thank you Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a personal telephone call to First Lady Thelma C. (\"Pat\") Nixon. The interaction served as a brief administrative request to connect the President with his wife. No substantive political or policy matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:35:57.365Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-047.mp3","bytes":182438,"durationSec":7.53,"bitrate":193881,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-047.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-047","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-047","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}