{"conversationCode":"032-018","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-018","startDateTime":"1972-10-24T17:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-24T19:50:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Oct-1972","startTime":"1:58 PM","endDate":"24-Oct-1972","endTime":"3:50 PM","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 1:58 pm and 3:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-018 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. 032-018\n\nDate: October 24, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:58 pm and 3:50 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 373-10]\n\n        The President’s schedule\n            -Call to Joseph M. Margiotta\n                -Postponement of return call\n                      -Time","filename":["032-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"032-017","nextCode":"032-019","transcript":[{"start":1.52,"end":7.28,"text":"I will be out to 3 o'clock, and you can return the calls then."},{"start":7.34,"end":8.59,"text":"I'll wait until 3, Mr. President."},{"start":8.79,"end":9.55,"text":"All right, bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to delay his scheduled outgoing calls until 3:00 pm. This brief exchange served to manage the President's afternoon availability and coordinate his administrative workflow. The operator acknowledged the instruction and agreed to hold the calls as requested.","topics":["Presidential schedule","White House operations","Administrative coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:01:42.233Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","white-house-operations","administrative-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":16,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-018.mp3","bytes":375535,"durationSec":15.59,"bitrate":192746,"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/032-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}