{"conversationCode":"029-058","tapeNumber":29,"conversationNumber":58,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-029-058","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 029-058 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. 29-58\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. 363-16C]\n\n     Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull","filename":["029-058.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"029-057","nextCode":"029-059","transcript":[{"start":0.28,"end":0.76,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his aide, Stephen B. Bull. This brief administrative interaction served as the mechanism to initiate a direct line of communication between the President and his staff. No further substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Stephen B. Bull","White House operations","Presidential communications","Staff coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:39:57.021Z"},"topicSlugs":["stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","staff-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"029-058.mp3","bytes":267701,"durationSec":11.09,"bitrate":193053,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/029-058.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-058","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/29/conversation-029-058","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}