{"conversationCode":"033-031","tapeNumber":33,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-033-031","startDateTime":"1972-11-04T16:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-11-04T16:01:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Nov-1972","startTime":"11:00 AM","endDate":"4-Nov-1972","endTime":"11:01 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:00 am and 11:01 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 033-031 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.1","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part I","chronReleaseDate":"11-Jul-2007","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 33-31\n\nDate: November 4, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 11:00 am and 11:01 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 389-16]\n\f                                               - 35 -\n\n                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY\n\n                                                           Conversation No. 33-114 (cont’d)\n\n       Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler","filename":["033-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"033-030","nextCode":"033-032","transcript":[{"start":1.6,"end":4.04,"text":"Sigler, please."},{"start":4.36,"end":5.15,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a telephone call to Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to initiate communication with a key staff member. No further substantive discussion took place during this brief interaction.","topics":["Ronald Ziegler","White House operations","Presidential communications","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:18:41.381Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-ziegler","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"033-031.mp3","bytes":154473,"durationSec":6.32,"bitrate":195664,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.780Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/033-031.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/033-031","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/33/conversation-033-031","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}