{"conversationCode":"035-044","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":44,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-044","startDateTime":"1973-01-01T00:57:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-01T01:00:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Dec-1972","startTime":"7:57 PM","endDate":"31-Dec-1972","endTime":"8:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 31, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:57 pm and 8:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-044 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. 35-44\n\nDate: December 31, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 7:57 pm and 8:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a call to Charles W. Colson\n\f                                               -47-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["035-044.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"035-043","nextCode":"035-045","transcript":[{"start":2.83,"end":4.33,"text":"Colson, please."},{"start":4.53,"end":5.3,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate an urgent telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served as a direct request for administrative assistance in connecting the President with Colson. No further substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this brief connection attempt.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:44:41.967Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-044.mp3","bytes":288379,"durationSec":11.87,"bitrate":194412,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.542Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.447Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/035-044.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-044","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-044","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}