{"conversationCode":"031-107","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":107,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-107","startDateTime":"1972-10-17T22:27:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-17T22:28:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Oct-1972","startTime":"6:27 PM","endDate":"17-Oct-1972","endTime":"6:28 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:27 pm and 6:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-107 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. 31-107\n\nDate: October 17, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 6:27 pm and 6:28 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 802-5]\n\n        Request for a call to Pegge (Jendro) Begich","filename":["031-107.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"031-106","nextCode":"031-108","transcript":[{"start":6.73,"end":7.31,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":7.33,"end":8.32,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":8.34,"end":13.6,"text":"Mrs. Bigich, she is the wife of the congressman from Alaska who was missing."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a personal call to the wife of Congressman Nick Begich. The Congressman had recently gone missing following an airplane disappearance in Alaska. The President's request served as an expression of concern for Mrs. Begich during the ongoing search and rescue efforts.","topics":["Nick Begich","Alaska","Search and rescue","White House operations","Presidential correspondence"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:55:51.879Z"},"topicSlugs":["nick-begich","alaska","search-and-rescue","white-house-operations","presidential-correspondence"],"audioDurationSec":19,"audioFiles":[{"file":"031-107.mp3","bytes":454529,"durationSec":18.87,"bitrate":192733,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/031-107.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-107","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/031/conversation-031-107","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}