{"conversationCode":"324-001","tapeNumber":324,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-324-001","startDateTime":"1972-03-17T22:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-17T22:29:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Mar-1972","startTime":"5:25 PM","endDate":"17-Mar-1972","endTime":"5:29 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 17, 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 5:25 pm and 5:29 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 324-001 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. 324-1\n\nDate: March 17, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:29 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 21-103]","filename":["324-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:00:36","tapeEnd":"00:00:48","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"323-035","nextCode":"324-002","transcript":[{"start":0.12,"end":4.39,"text":"Oh, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon interacted briefly with a White House operator to place an outgoing call. The conversation was purely administrative in nature, serving as a functional bridge to connect the President to an external party. No substantive policy discussions or significant political developments occurred during this short exchange.","topics":["White House operator","telecommunications","administrative operations","presidential logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:05:55.557Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","telecommunications","administrative-operations","presidential-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"324-001.mp3","bytes":183693,"durationSec":4.46,"bitrate":329686,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.568Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/324-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/324-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/324/conversation-324-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}