{"conversationCode":"029-045","tapeNumber":29,"conversationNumber":45,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-029-045","startDateTime":"1972-08-08T16:31:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-08T16:37:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Aug-1972","startTime":"12:31 PM","endDate":"8-Aug-1972","endTime":"12:37 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:31 pm and 12:37 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-045 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 29-45\n\nDate: August 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:31 pm and 12:37 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 363-2]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["029-045.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"029-044","nextCode":"029-046","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":7.34,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. This brief communication served solely as a logistical request to initiate a connection with a key administration staffer. No substantive policy discussions or policy-related decisions were recorded during this interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","logistics","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:38:46.281Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","logistics","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"029-045.mp3","bytes":176795,"durationSec":7.31,"bitrate":193571,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/029-045.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-045","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/029/conversation-029-045","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}