{"conversationCode":"035-081","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":81,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-081","startDateTime":"1973-01-04T13:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-04T13:53:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Jan-1973","startTime":"8:50 AM","endDate":"4-Jan-1973","endTime":"8:53 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 4, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:50 am and 8:53 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-081 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. 35-81\n\nDate: January 4, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 8:50 am and 8:53 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 833-6]\n\n       Request for a call to Charles W. Colson\n\f                                               -80-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["035-081.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"035-080","nextCode":"035-082","transcript":[{"start":1.99,"end":3.1,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.12,"end":3.82,"text":"Colson, please."},{"start":3.84,"end":6.24,"text":"Thanks, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact Charles W. Colson. The exchange is purely logistical, serving as a directive to place the call for the President. No substantive policy matters or further decisions are addressed during this brief operational connection.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:48:10.343Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-081.mp3","bytes":269570,"durationSec":11.09,"bitrate":194401,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.542Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.452Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/035-081.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-081","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-081","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}