{"conversationCode":"034-029","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":29,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-029","startDateTime":"1972-12-10T16:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-10T17:04:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Dec-1972","startTime":"11:50 AM","endDate":"10-Dec-1972","endTime":"12:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:04 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-029 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.2","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part II","chronReleaseDate":"2-Dec-2008","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 34-29\n\nDate: December 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 11:50 am and 12:04 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 384-4B]\n\n       Request for a call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin","filename":["034-029.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"034-028","nextCode":"034-030","transcript":[{"start":2.06,"end":5.76,"text":"Ambassador Dobrynin please."},{"start":6.38,"end":7.61,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy F. Dobrynin. This brief administrative exchange served as the precursor to a diplomatic discussion between the two parties. No further substantive policy matters were addressed during this short connection.","topics":["Anatoliy F. Dobrynin","Soviet-American relations","White House communications","Diplomacy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:29:00.353Z"},"topicSlugs":["anatoliy-f-dobrynin","soviet-american-relations","white-house-communications","diplomacy"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"034-029.mp3","bytes":335666,"durationSec":13.87,"bitrate":193653,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/034-029.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-029","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/34/conversation-034-029","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}