{"conversationCode":"309-005","tapeNumber":309,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-309-005","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T18:46:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T18:48:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:46 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"1:48 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 24, 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 1:46 pm and 1:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 309-005 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. 309-5\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:46 pm and 1:48 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 17-6]\n\n     Request for a call to Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes","filename":["309-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:40:07","tapeEnd":"01:41:12","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"309-004","nextCode":"309-006","transcript":[{"start":4.76,"end":8.76,"text":"General Hughes, Dockers."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call to General James D. “Don” Hughes. The exchange served exclusively as a logistical request to establish this communication link. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["White House communications","James D. Hughes","Executive logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:22:38.258Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","james-d-hughes","executive-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"309-005.mp3","bytes":357142,"durationSec":8.79,"bitrate":324940,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.955Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/309-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/309-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/309/conversation-309-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}