{"conversationCode":"034-119","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":119,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-119","startDateTime":"1972-12-17T20:24:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-17T20:25:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Dec-1972","startTime":"3:24 PM","endDate":"17-Dec-1972","endTime":"3:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:24 pm and 3:25 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-119 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. 34-119\n\nDate: December 17, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:24 pm and 3:25 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to military aide’s [Lt. Col. William L. Golden’s] office","filename":["034-119.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"034-118","nextCode":"034-120","transcript":[{"start":4.35,"end":13.33,"text":"Meet a military aids office, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a communication with the office of military aide Lieutenant Colonel William L. Golden. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to initiate this specific line of contact. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief connection.","topics":["Military aide","White House operations","Logistics","Communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:37:28.371Z"},"topicSlugs":["military-aide","white-house-operations","logistics","communication"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"034-119.mp3","bytes":440364,"durationSec":18.23,"bitrate":193283,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/034-119.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-119","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/034/conversation-034-119","catalogNaId":647841842,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/647841842","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}