{"conversationCode":"029-051","tapeNumber":29,"conversationNumber":51,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-029-051","startDateTime":"1972-08-08T16:48:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-08T17:23:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Aug-1972","startTime":"12:48 PM","endDate":"8-Aug-1972","endTime":"1:23 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 12:48 pm and 1:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-051 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. 29-51\n\nDate: August 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:48 pm and 1:23 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 363-5D]\n\n     Request for a call to Alexander P. Butterfield","filename":["029-051.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"029-050","nextCode":"029-052","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":8.64,"text":"What are they?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a telephone call to Alexander P. Butterfield. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to initiate communication with the Deputy Assistant to the President. No further substantive policy matters or decisions were recorded during this connection.","topics":["Alexander P. Butterfield","White House operations","Telephone logs","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:39:19.303Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-p-butterfield","white-house-operations","telephone-logs","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"029-051.mp3","bytes":208142,"durationSec":8.6,"bitrate":193620,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:39.635Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/029-051.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-051","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/29/conversation-029-051","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}