{"conversationCode":"032-062","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":62,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-062","startDateTime":"1972-10-27T03:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-27T03:44:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Oct-1972","startTime":"11:37 PM","endDate":"26-Oct-1972","endTime":"11:44 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 11:37 pm and 11:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-062 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. 032-062\n\nDate: October 26, 1972\nTime: Unkown between 11:37 pm and 11:44 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n        Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger.","filename":["032-062.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"032-061","nextCode":"032-063","transcript":[{"start":2.24,"end":2.83,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":2.91,"end":4.12,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":4.16,"end":6.05,"text":"If he's in bed, don't wake him."},{"start":6.43,"end":6.63,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a call to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. He explicitly directed the operator not to wake Kissinger if he had already retired for the evening. This brief exchange reflects the ongoing, late-night communication loop between the President and his advisor during sensitive geopolitical negotiations.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication","Foreign policy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:05:49.231Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","foreign-policy"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-062.mp3","bytes":277732,"durationSec":11.51,"bitrate":193092,"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/032-062.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-062","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/032/conversation-032-062","catalogNaId":417194023,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417194023","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}