{"conversationCode":"307-023","tapeNumber":307,"conversationNumber":23,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-307-023","startDateTime":"1971-12-08T20:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-08T20:46:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Dec-1971","startTime":"3:44 PM","endDate":"8-Dec-1971","endTime":"3:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 8, 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 3:44 pm and 3:46 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 307-023 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. 307-023\n\nDate: December 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:46 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 16-57]","filename":["307-023.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:44:40","tapeEnd":"00:45:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"307-022","nextCode":"307-024","transcript":[{"start":0.15,"end":3.49,"text":"I'm sorry."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon interacts with a White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. The brief exchange serves as a procedural step for establishing telephonic communication. No substantive policy matters or significant decisions were addressed during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["White House operator","Telecommunications","Administrative procedure","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:19:46.880Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","telecommunications","administrative-procedure","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"307-023.mp3","bytes":240118,"durationSec":5.86,"bitrate":327837,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:18.808Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/307-023.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/307-023","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/307/conversation-307-023","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}