{"conversationCode":"024-164","tapeNumber":24,"conversationNumber":164,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-024-164","startDateTime":"1972-05-20T04:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-20T12:27:00.000Z","startDate":"20-May-1972","startTime":"12:00 AM","endDate":"20-May-1972","endTime":"8:27 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:00 am and 8:27 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 024-164 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. 24-164\n\nDate: May 20, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:00 am and 8:27 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["024-164.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:14:16","tapeEnd":"04:14:21","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"024-163","nextCode":"024-165","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.33,"text":"Call complete."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an urgent connection to his Special Counsel, Charles W. Colson. The call served purely as a logistical request to bridge communication between the President and a key aide. No further substantive discussion took place during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Communication","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:02:02.243Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","communication","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"024-164.mp3","bytes":129775,"durationSec":5.34,"bitrate":194346,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.841Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/024-164.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/024-164","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/24/conversation-024-164","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}