{"conversationCode":"034-077","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":77,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-077","startDateTime":"1972-12-14T18:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-14T19:09:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Dec-1972","startTime":"1:39 PM","endDate":"14-Dec-1972","endTime":"2:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:39 pm and 2:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-077 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. 34-77\n\nDate: December 14, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:39 pm and 2:09 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 384-8]\n\n       Request for a call to William E. Timmons","filename":["034-077.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"034-076","nextCode":"034-078","transcript":[{"start":0.47,"end":3.45,"text":"Timmons?"},{"start":3.47,"end":5.32,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to connect him with William E. Timmons, then serving as the Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to initiate a telephone communication with Timmons. No further policy discussions or substantive developments were recorded in this initial contact.","topics":["William E. Timmons","Congressional Relations","White House operations","Communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:33:28.544Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-e-timmons","congressional-relations","white-house-operations","communication"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"034-077.mp3","bytes":282372,"durationSec":11.64,"bitrate":194070,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/034-077.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-077","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/34/conversation-034-077","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}