{"conversationCode":"031-096","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":96,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-096","startDateTime":"1972-10-17T00:33:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-17T00:36:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Oct-1972","startTime":"8:33 PM","endDate":"16-Oct-1972","endTime":"8:36 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Mulcahy, John W., Jr.;","description":"On October 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John W. Mulcahy, Jr. talked on the telephone from 8:33 pm to 8:36 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-096 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. 31-96\n\nDate: October 16, 1972\nTime: 8:33 pm - 8:36 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with John A. Mulcahy.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 2m 32s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["031-096.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Mulcahy, John W., Jr."],"prevCode":"031-095","nextCode":"031-097","transcript":[{"start":1.08,"end":1.66,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.82,"end":3.91,"text":"Mr. John Mulcahy?"},{"start":4.53,"end":4.83,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":6.62,"end":7.76,"text":"President's on the line, sir."},{"start":7.78,"end":8.1,"text":"Hello."},{"start":8.44,"end":9.89,"text":"Hello."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief telephone conversation with John W. Mulcahy, Jr. to engage in a discussion that was subsequently classified as a personal returnable item. Due to the withdrawal of the recorded content from the public record, the specific substance and outcomes of this communication remain restricted for historical review. No public policy decisions or administrative actions were documented in the surviving transcript of this exchange.","topics":["Presidential communication","Personal correspondence","Nixon administration","Archival restrictions"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:54:50.883Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communication","personal-correspondence","nixon-administration","archival-restrictions"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"031-096.mp3","bytes":548570,"durationSec":22.8,"bitrate":192480,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/031-096.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-096","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/31/conversation-031-096","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}