{"conversationCode":"032-012","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-012","startDateTime":"1972-10-24T04:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-24T04:18:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Oct-1972","startTime":"12:17 AM","endDate":"24-Oct-1972","endTime":"12:18 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:17 am and 12:18 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-012 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. 032-012\n\nDate: October 24, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:17 am and 12:18 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n        Request for a call to Charles W. Colson.","filename":["032-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"032-011","nextCode":"032-013","transcript":[{"start":2.78,"end":3.59,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":5.84,"end":6.13,"text":"Operator."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with special counsel Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to initiate communication between the President and his aide. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:01:08.855Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-012.mp3","bytes":290898,"durationSec":12.05,"bitrate":193073,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.401Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/032-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}