{"conversationCode":"031-093","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":93,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-093","startDateTime":"1972-10-17T00:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-17T00:11:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Oct-1972","startTime":"8:08 PM","endDate":"16-Oct-1972","endTime":"8:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Scaife, Richard M.;","description":"On October 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Richard M. Scaife talked on the telephone from 8:08 pm to 8:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-093 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. 31-93\nDate: October 16, 1972\nTime: 8:08 pm - 8:11 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Richard Scaife.\n\n        Greetings\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 1m 59s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["031-093.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Scaife, Richard M."],"prevCode":"031-092","nextCode":"031-094","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":0.92,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.04,"end":2.85,"text":"Mr. Richard Skate in Pittsburgh."},{"start":5.54,"end":6.52,"text":"Okay."},{"start":6.54,"end":6.79,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":7.29,"end":7.83,"text":"Hello, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief telephone conversation with Richard M. Scaife to exchange personal greetings. The majority of the recorded interaction consists of a withdrawn segment, leaving no substantive policy discussions or actionable decisions on the public record. The exchange served primarily as a brief interpersonal communication between the President and the philanthropist.","topics":["Richard M. Scaife","Presidential communications","Personal correspondence"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:54:33.375Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-m-scaife","presidential-communications","personal-correspondence"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"031-093.mp3","bytes":499042,"durationSec":20.73,"bitrate":192556,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.107Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/031-093.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-093","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/31/conversation-031-093","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}