{"conversationCode":"023-130","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":130,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-130","startDateTime":"1972-05-03T16:36:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-03T16:40:00.000Z","startDate":"3-May-1972","startTime":"12:36 PM","endDate":"3-May-1972","endTime":"12:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:36 pm and 12:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-130 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. 23-130\n\nDate: May 3, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:36 and 12:40 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 335-4]\n\n     Request for a call to Alexander P. Butterfield","filename":["023-130.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-129","nextCode":"023-131","transcript":[{"start":2.38,"end":3.37,"text":"Yes, it is."},{"start":3.39,"end":4.3,"text":"Butterfield, please."},{"start":4.32,"end":4.95,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to his Deputy Assistant, Alexander P. Butterfield. The brief exchange served as a routine procedural request to initiate communication with a key staff member. No further policy or administrative matters were discussed during this short connection.","topics":["Alexander P. Butterfield","White House operations","Presidential communication","Telephone protocols"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:43:33.829Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-p-butterfield","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","telephone-protocols"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-130.mp3","bytes":155479,"durationSec":6.41,"bitrate":194121,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.839Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-130.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-130","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-130","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}