{"conversationCode":"031-042","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":42,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-042","startDateTime":"1972-10-13T23:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-13T23:24:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Oct-1972","startTime":"7:17 PM","endDate":"13-Oct-1972","endTime":"7:24 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:17 pm and 7:24 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-042 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. 31-42\n\nDate: October 13, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 7:17 pm and 7:24 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":["031-042.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"031-041","nextCode":"031-043","transcript":[{"start":4.33,"end":6.22,"text":"Mr. Coulson, please."},{"start":6.24,"end":6.55,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an urgent call to his Special Counsel, Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served solely as a functional request to initiate this communication channel. No substantive policy matters or tactical discussions occurred during this short interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:49:53.307Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"031-042.mp3","bytes":275225,"durationSec":11.41,"bitrate":192914,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.100Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/031-042.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-042","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/31/conversation-031-042","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}