{"conversationCode":"362-025","tapeNumber":362,"conversationNumber":25,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-362-025","startDateTime":"1972-09-06T16:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-09-06T18:16:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Sep-1972","startTime":"12:40 PM","endDate":"6-Sep-1972","endTime":"2:16 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 6, 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 12:40 pm and 2:16 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 362-025 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 362-25\n\nDate: September 6, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:40 pm and 2:16 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n             Request for a call to Melvin R. Laird","filename":["362-025.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"362-024","nextCode":"362-026","transcript":[{"start":10.56,"end":11.54,"text":"One, two, three."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to facilitate a telephonic connection with Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird. This administrative interaction served solely to initiate official communication between the President and the head of the Department of Defense. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Melvin R. Laird","Department of Defense","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T16:58:02.713Z"},"topicSlugs":["melvin-r-laird","department-of-defense","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":17,"audioFiles":[{"file":"362-025.mp3","bytes":414405,"durationSec":17.2,"bitrate":192746,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.539Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/362-025.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/362-025","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/362/conversation-362-025","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}