{"conversationCode":"023-055","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":55,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-055","startDateTime":"1972-04-20T20:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-20T20:15:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Apr-1972","startTime":"3:10 PM","endDate":"20-Apr-1972","endTime":"3:15 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 3:10 pm and 3:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-055 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. 23-55\n\nDate: April 20, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:10 and 3:15 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 332-21A]\n\n     Request for a call to Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger","filename":["023-055.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-054","nextCode":"023-056","transcript":[{"start":2.61,"end":4.24,"text":"Mr. Weinberger, please."},{"start":4.42,"end":5.64,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Caspar Weinberger. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to facilitate direct communication between the President and the then-Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["Caspar Weinberger","White House operations","Executive communication","Office of Management and Budget"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:36:42.475Z"},"topicSlugs":["caspar-weinberger","white-house-operations","executive-communication","office-of-management-and-budget"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-055.mp3","bytes":167391,"durationSec":6.91,"bitrate":193762,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-055.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-055","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-055","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}