{"conversationCode":"032-060","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":60,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-060","startDateTime":"1972-10-26T19:13:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-26T19:28:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Oct-1972","startTime":"3:13 PM","endDate":"26-Oct-1972","endTime":"3:28 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:13 pm and 3:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-060 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. 032-060\n\nDate: October 26, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:13 pm and 3:28 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 375-21B]\n\n        Alexander M. Haig's location\n            -Ronald L. Ziegler's office\n            -Return call","filename":["032-060.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"032-059","nextCode":"032-061","transcript":[{"start":1.3,"end":5.11,"text":"President General, Haig is in Mr. Ziegler's office with some reporters."},{"start":5.13,"end":6.01,"text":"Yeah, I know he is."},{"start":6.13,"end":8.14,"text":"Tell him just to step out to the phone briefly."},{"start":8.38,"end":9.87,"text":"This has to do with what he's talking about."},{"start":9.89,"end":10.73,"text":"Will do, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to interrupt General Alexander Haig, who was meeting with reporters in Ronald Ziegler’s office. The President requested that Haig step away from the press to take a brief phone call regarding the sensitive topics being discussed. This directive ensured that the President could directly coordinate communications strategy or provide instructions to Haig while he was actively engaged with the media.","topics":["Alexander Haig","Ronald Ziegler","Media relations","White House communications","Presidential directive"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:05:38.015Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-haig","ronald-ziegler","media-relations","white-house-communications","presidential-directive"],"audioDurationSec":16,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-060.mp3","bytes":381804,"durationSec":15.84,"bitrate":192830,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.405Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/032-060.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-060","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-060","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}