{"conversationCode":"023-051","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":51,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-051","startDateTime":"1972-04-20T18:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-20T19:46:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Apr-1972","startTime":"1:10 PM","endDate":"20-Apr-1972","endTime":"2:46 PM","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 1:10 pm and 2:46 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-051 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. 23-51\n\nDate: April 20, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:10 and 2:46 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler","filename":["023-051.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-050","nextCode":"023-052","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":1.05,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":1.07,"end":1.86,"text":"Mr. Ziegler, please."},{"start":2.08,"end":2.55,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":2.57,"end":3.07,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his Press Secretary, Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief exchange served solely as an administrative request to initiate communication with a key member of the administration's communications staff. No further substantive policy matters or tactical decisions were discussed during this short interaction.","topics":["White House communications","Ronald L. Ziegler","Administrative procedure","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:36:19.404Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","ronald-l-ziegler","administrative-procedure","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-051.mp3","bytes":106578,"durationSec":4.38,"bitrate":194638,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.839Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-051.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-051","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-051","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}