{"conversationCode":"032-004","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-004","startDateTime":"1972-10-22T23:32:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-22T23:48:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Oct-1972","startTime":"7:32 PM","endDate":"22-Oct-1972","endTime":"7:48 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:32 pm and 7:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-004 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. 032-004\n\nDate: October 22, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 7:32 pm and 7:48 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n           Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["032-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"032-003","nextCode":"032-005","transcript":[{"start":2,"end":3.64,"text":"General Haig, please."},{"start":3.72,"end":6.5,"text":"Surely."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an urgent call to General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The brief exchange served solely as a logistical request to establish communication with his close advisor. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","White House operations","Presidential communication","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:00:21.804Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-004.mp3","bytes":223816,"durationSec":9.27,"bitrate":193222,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.399Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/032-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}