{"conversationCode":"311-047","tapeNumber":311,"conversationNumber":47,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-311-047","startDateTime":"1972-01-02T20:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-02T20:58:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1972","startTime":"3:50 PM","endDate":"2-Jan-1972","endTime":"3:58 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 2, 1972, 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 3:50 pm and 3:58 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 311-047 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. 311-47\n\nDate: January 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:50 pm and 3:58 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 17-147]","filename":["311a.mp3","311b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:32:48","tapeEnd":"02:33:21","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"311-046","nextCode":"311-048","tapeTranscriptFile":"311a.mp3,311b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":9199.23,"end":9201,"text":"But what I mean is that both are very bad in terms of that."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":9168,"end":9201,"startMethod":"tape_time","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, informal communication with the White House operator to discuss logistical arrangements or personal observations regarding an ongoing telephone exchange. The conversation lacks a formal policy agenda and appears to be a procedural check-in or a continuation of a previous interaction. No significant policy decisions or strategic shifts were recorded during this brief engagement.","topics":["White House operations","telecommunications","logistics","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:31:32.501Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","telecommunications","logistics","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":33,"audioFiles":[{"file":"311a.mp3","bytes":117893328,"durationSec":7368.25,"bitrate":128001,"missing":false},{"file":"311b.mp3","bytes":64741040,"durationSec":4046.22,"bitrate":128002,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.278Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/311a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/311b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/311-047","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/311/conversation-311-047","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}