{"conversationCode":"032-008","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-008","startDateTime":"1972-10-23T00:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-23T00:23:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Oct-1972","startTime":"8:09 PM","endDate":"22-Oct-1972","endTime":"8:23 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 8:09 pm and 8:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-008 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. 032-008\n\nDate: October 22, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:09 pm and 8:23 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n        Request for a call to William P. Rogers.","filename":["032-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"032-007","nextCode":"032-009","transcript":[{"start":2.58,"end":3.52,"text":"Secretary Rogers?"},{"start":4.19,"end":4.37,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate an urgent telephone call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and his top diplomat. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["William P. Rogers","Secretary of State","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:00:45.489Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","secretary-of-state","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-008.mp3","bytes":217546,"durationSec":9,"bitrate":193374,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.234Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/032-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}