{"conversationCode":"321-026","tapeNumber":321,"conversationNumber":26,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-321-026","startDateTime":"1972-03-08T21:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-08T21:40:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Mar-1972","startTime":"4:35 PM","endDate":"8-Mar-1972","endTime":"4:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 8, 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 4:35 pm and 4:40 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 321-026 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 321-26\n\nDate: March 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:35 pm and 4:40 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 21-22]","filename":["321-026.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:47:58","tapeEnd":"02:48:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"321-025","nextCode":"321-027","transcript":[{"start":0.34,"end":4.72,"text":"Stay there, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon communicated briefly with the White House operator to manage telephone connectivity. The interaction served as a functional exchange to facilitate an outgoing call. No substantive policy discussions or significant political developments occurred during this short administrative contact.","topics":["White House communications","Presidential operations","Telecommunications","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:56:41.913Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","presidential-operations","telecommunications","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"321-026.mp3","bytes":193097,"durationSec":4.7,"bitrate":329007,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.568Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/321-026.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/321-026","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/321/conversation-321-026","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}