{"conversationCode":"024-031","tapeNumber":24,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-024-031","startDateTime":"1972-05-09T02:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-09T03:22:00.000Z","startDate":"8-May-1972","startTime":"10:52 PM","endDate":"8-May-1972","endTime":"11:22 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","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 an unknown time between 10:52 pm and 11:22 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 024-031 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. 24-31\n\nDate: May 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:52 pm and 11:22 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 336-69R]\n\n     Request for a call to John B. Connally","filename":["024-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:37:35","tapeEnd":"00:37:42","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"024-030","nextCode":"024-032","transcript":[{"start":3.1,"end":4.1,"text":"Secretary Connolly."},{"start":4.12,"end":4.47,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally. This administrative interaction served as a formal request to initiate direct communication with Connally. No further substantive discussion occurred during this brief connection before the operator proceeded with the request.","topics":["John B. Connally","White House operations","Presidential communication","Executive coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:49:57.548Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-b-connally","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","executive-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"024-031.mp3","bytes":158614,"durationSec":6.55,"bitrate":193805,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.839Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/024-031.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/024-031","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/24/conversation-024-031","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}