{"conversationCode":"031-080","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":80,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-080","startDateTime":"1972-10-16T21:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-16T21:59:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Oct-1972","startTime":"5:44 PM","endDate":"16-Oct-1972","endTime":"5:59 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","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 an unknown time between 5:44 pm and 5:59 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-080 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. 31-80\n\nDate: October 16, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:44 pm and 5:59 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 800-5B]\n\n        Request for a call to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew","filename":["031-080.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"031-079","nextCode":"031-081","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":2.39,"text":"Please."},{"start":2.41,"end":3.4,"text":"The Vice President, please."},{"start":3.42,"end":4.42,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew through the White House operator. The primary objective of the communication is to establish a direct line of contact with the Vice President. No substantive policy matters or further developments were recorded in this short exchange.","topics":["Spiro T. Agnew","Presidential communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:53:22.304Z"},"topicSlugs":["spiro-t-agnew","presidential-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"031-080.mp3","bytes":211904,"durationSec":8.76,"bitrate":193519,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.232Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/031-080.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-080","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/31/conversation-031-080","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}