{"conversationCode":"030-009","tapeNumber":30,"conversationNumber":9,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-030-009","startDateTime":"1972-09-20T23:46:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-09-21T00:03:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Sep-1972","startTime":"7:46 PM","endDate":"20-Sep-1972","endTime":"8:03 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:46 pm and 8:03 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 030-009 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. 30-9\n\nDate: September 20, 1972\n\nTime: Unknown between 7:46 pm and 8:03 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["030-009.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"030-008","nextCode":"030-010","transcript":[{"start":8.38,"end":9.29,"text":"Colson, please."},{"start":9.41,"end":9.92,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served solely as a request to connect with Colson for an unstated purpose. No further substantive discussion occurred between the President and the operator.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:42:07.077Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"030-009.mp3","bytes":358608,"durationSec":14.88,"bitrate":192800,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.232Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:39.805Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/030-009.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/030-009","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/30/conversation-030-009","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}