{"conversationCode":"029-056","tapeNumber":29,"conversationNumber":56,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-029-056","startDateTime":"1972-08-08T20:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-08T20:47:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Aug-1972","startTime":"4:11 PM","endDate":"8-Aug-1972","endTime":"4:47 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 4:11 pm and 4:47 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-056 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. 29-56\n\nDate: August 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:11 pm and 4:47 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 363-16A]\n\n     Request for a call to Richard K. Cook for Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["029-056.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"029-055","nextCode":"029-057","transcript":[{"start":0.27,"end":0.68,"text":"you"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection for Henry Kissinger. The primary purpose of this interaction was to reach Richard K. Cook on behalf of the National Security Advisor. No further policy discussions or significant substantive developments occurred during this brief administrative request.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","Richard K. Cook","White House operations","Administrative communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:39:46.218Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","richard-k-cook","white-house-operations","administrative-communications"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"029-056.mp3","bytes":210650,"durationSec":8.72,"bitrate":193256,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.084Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:39.636Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/029-056.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-056","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/29/conversation-029-056","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}