{"conversationCode":"023-128","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":128,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-128","startDateTime":"1972-05-03T01:31:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-03T01:35:00.000Z","startDate":"2-May-1972","startTime":"9:31 PM","endDate":"2-May-1972","endTime":"9:35 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:31 pm and 9:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-128 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. 23-128\n\nDate: May 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:31 and 9:35 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":["023-128.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-127","nextCode":"023-129","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":5.06,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":5.08,"end":5.28,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":5.3,"end":5.5,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. This brief administrative interaction served as the necessary logistical step to initiate a high-level discussion on foreign policy matters. The exchange concluded once the operator began the process of locating and patching through the call to Kissinger.","topics":["Henry A. Kissinger","White House operations","Telecommunications","National security","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:43:23.164Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-a-kissinger","white-house-operations","telecommunications","national-security","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-128.mp3","bytes":132910,"durationSec":5.47,"bitrate":194286,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-128.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-128","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-128","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}