{"conversationCode":"031-144","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":144,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-144","startDateTime":"1972-10-19T20:19:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-19T21:06:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Oct-1972","startTime":"4:19 PM","endDate":"19-Oct-1972","endTime":"5:06 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:19 pm and 5:06 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-144 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. 31-144\n\nDate: October 19, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:19 pm and 5:06 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 370-14]\n\n        Request for a call to Gen. Walter R. Tkach","filename":["031-144.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"031-143","nextCode":"031-145","transcript":[{"start":0.66,"end":2.79,"text":"Please."},{"start":2.89,"end":4.1,"text":"Dr. DeCosh, please."},{"start":4.12,"end":4.72,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place outgoing telephone calls to General Walter R. Tkach and an individual identified as Dr. DeCosh. The brief interaction served as an administrative request to facilitate these specific communications. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Presidential communications","General Walter R. Tkach","Dr. DeCosh","Administrative requests"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:59:15.737Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communications","general-walter-r-tkach","dr-decosh","administrative-requests"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"031-144.mp3","bytes":230712,"durationSec":9.56,"bitrate":193064,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.113Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/031-144.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-144","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/31/conversation-031-144","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}