{"conversationCode":"031-063","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":63,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-063","startDateTime":"1972-10-16T18:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-16T18:35:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Oct-1972","startTime":"2:35 PM","endDate":"16-Oct-1972","endTime":"2:35 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 2:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-063 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. 31-63\n\nDate: October 16, 1972\nTime: 2:35 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 367-10D]\n\n        Status of call to W. Clement Stone\n            -Stone's schedule\n                 -Call back instructions","filename":["031-063.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"031-062","nextCode":"031-064","transcript":[{"start":0.23,"end":0.99,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.01,"end":7.02,"text":"Mr. President, Mr. W. Clement Stone, it is W. Clement Stone that you wish, is it not?"},{"start":7.06,"end":8.06,"text":"Clement Stone, yes."},{"start":8.52,"end":13.79,"text":"Well, he's out of the office, and they don't expect him today, and they said they do expect to hear from him."},{"start":13.81,"end":16.85,"text":"Would you like to leave a word for him to call when they hear from him?"},{"start":18.12,"end":19.92,"text":"He can't be reached in the meantime."},{"start":19.94,"end":24.14,"text":"Oh, yeah, there's no urgency, but at his convenience."},{"start":24.16,"end":25.25,"text":"Fine, thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon attempted to reach major political donor W. Clement Stone, but the White House operator informed him that Stone was unavailable and not expected in his office for the remainder of the day. Nixon instructed the operator to leave a message for Stone to return the call at his convenience. The President explicitly noted that the matter lacked urgency.","topics":["W. Clement Stone","Political fundraising","Presidential scheduling","White House communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:51:48.404Z"},"topicSlugs":["w-clement-stone","political-fundraising","presidential-scheduling","white-house-communications"],"audioDurationSec":29,"audioFiles":[{"file":"031-063.mp3","bytes":709066,"durationSec":29.48,"bitrate":192419,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/031-063.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-063","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/31/conversation-031-063","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}