{"conversationCode":"035-020","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-020","startDateTime":"1972-12-28T01:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-28T01:49:00.000Z","startDate":"27-Dec-1972","startTime":"8:45 PM","endDate":"27-Dec-1972","endTime":"8:49 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:45 pm and 8:49 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-020 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. 35-20\n\nDate: December 27, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:45 pm and 8:49 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\f                                               -26-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                            Conversation No. 35-20 (cont’d)\n\n       Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull","filename":["035-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"035-019","nextCode":"035-021","transcript":[{"start":8.03,"end":8.34,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his personal aide, Stephen B. Bull. This brief administrative exchange served solely to initiate the communication link between the two parties. No substantive policy or political matters were discussed during this brief request for assistance.","topics":["Stephen B. Bull","White House operations","Administrative communications","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:42:28.921Z"},"topicSlugs":["stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations","administrative-communications","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-020.mp3","bytes":319726,"durationSec":13.17,"bitrate":194165,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.444Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/035-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}