{"conversationCode":"024-007","tapeNumber":24,"conversationNumber":7,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-024-007","startDateTime":"1972-05-08T20:13:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-08T20:13:00.000Z","startDate":"8-May-1972","startTime":"4:13 PM","endDate":"8-May-1972","endTime":"4:13 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:13 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 024-007 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. 24-7\n\nDate: May 8, 1972\nTime: 4:13 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 336-20]\n\n     Stephen B. Bull\n          -Location\n\n     Request for a call to Alexander P. Butterfield","filename":["024-007.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:08:24","tapeEnd":"00:08:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"024-006","nextCode":"024-008","transcript":[{"start":1.92,"end":2.58,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.89,"end":4.42,"text":"Steve Bull is out of the city."},{"start":4.44,"end":6.57,"text":"Well, ask, get Butterfield in."},{"start":6.61,"end":7.7,"text":"Butterfield, good."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to facilitate an urgent communication with Alexander P. Butterfield. After learning that Stephen B. Bull was unavailable, the President explicitly requested that Butterfield be brought in to speak with him. This brief exchange served solely as an administrative step to establish contact with key personnel.","topics":["Alexander P. Butterfield","Stephen B. Bull","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:47:48.620Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-p-butterfield","stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"024-007.mp3","bytes":210023,"durationSec":8.7,"bitrate":193186,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.839Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/024-007.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/024-007","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/24/conversation-024-007","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}