{"conversationCode":"032-074","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":74,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-074","startDateTime":"1972-10-27T16:59:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-27T17:01:00.000Z","startDate":"27-Oct-1972","startTime":"12:59 PM","endDate":"27-Oct-1972","endTime":"1:01 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and 1:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-074 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. 032-074\n\nDate: October 27, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:59 am and 1:01 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 808-8A]\n\n        Request for a call to Earl L. Butz.","filename":["032-074.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"032-072","nextCode":"032-075","transcript":[{"start":2.06,"end":3.75,"text":"Dr. Butts."},{"start":4.16,"end":5.97,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz. This brief communication served strictly as a request for administrative assistance to facilitate the connection. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Earl L. Butz","Department of Agriculture","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:06:49.855Z"},"topicSlugs":["earl-l-butz","department-of-agriculture","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-074.mp3","bytes":210650,"durationSec":8.72,"bitrate":193256,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.234Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/032-074.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-074","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-074","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}