{"conversationCode":"023-069","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":69,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-069","startDateTime":"1972-04-25T19:01:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-25T19:15:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Apr-1972","startTime":"2:01 PM","endDate":"25-Apr-1972","endTime":"2:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-069 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. 23-69\n\nDate: April 25, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:01 and 2:15 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["023-069.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-068","nextCode":"023-070","transcript":[{"start":4.15,"end":4.8,"text":"Yes, ma'am."},{"start":4.82,"end":5.46,"text":"About to catch a breeze."},{"start":5.48,"end":6.19,"text":"Yes, Mr. Browning."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to initiate this high-level communication. No substantive policy matters were discussed during this initial routing call.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:37:59.254Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-069.mp3","bytes":194977,"durationSec":8.07,"bitrate":193403,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.839Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-069.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-069","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/023/conversation-023-069","catalogNaId":417193423,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193423","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}