{"conversationCode":"267-020","tapeNumber":267,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-267-020","startDateTime":"1971-07-30T20:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-30T20:45:00.000Z","startDate":"30-Jul-1971","startTime":"4:45 PM","endDate":"30-Jul-1971","endTime":"4:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On July 30, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 4:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 267-020 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 267-020\n\nDate: July 30, 1971\nTime: 4:45 pm\nLocation: Old Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["267-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:14:34","tapeEnd":"05:15:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"267-019","nextCode":"267-021","transcript":[{"start":3.95,"end":8.25,"text":"Cold, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical request to initiate contact with a senior staff member. No substantive policy matters or further developments were discussed during this short exchange.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications","Telephone logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:29:14.080Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","telephone-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"267-020.mp3","bytes":334158,"durationSec":8.21,"bitrate":325752,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.007Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/267-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/267-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/267/conversation-267-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}