{"conversationCode":"282-002","tapeNumber":282,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-282-002","startDateTime":"1971-10-20T16:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-20T18:23:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Oct-1971","startTime":"12:30 PM","endDate":"20-Oct-1971","endTime":"2:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 282-002 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 282-2\n\nDate: October 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to the Attorney General\n\n[See Conversation No. 11-160]","filename":["282-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:02:51","tapeEnd":"00:03:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"282-001","nextCode":"282-003","transcript":[{"start":7.67,"end":8.11,"text":"Sir."},{"start":8.19,"end":8.31,"text":"Sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone call to the Attorney General, John Mitchell. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to establish a line of communication with the head of the Justice Department. No policy discussions occurred during this interaction.","topics":["Presidential communication","Attorney General","White House operator","administrative procedures"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:16:00.156Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communication","attorney-general","white-house-operator","administrative-procedures"],"audioDurationSec":22,"audioFiles":[{"file":"282-002.mp3","bytes":878566,"durationSec":21.82,"bitrate":322070,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.615Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/282-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/282-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/282/conversation-282-002","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}