{"conversationCode":"472-015","tapeNumber":472,"conversationNumber":15,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-472-015","startDateTime":"1971-03-23T19:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-03-23T19:44:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Mar-1971","startTime":"2:12 PM","endDate":"23-Mar-1971","endTime":"2:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:12 pm and 2:44 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 472-015 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 472-15\n\nDate: March 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:12 pm and 2:44 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n     Call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["472-015.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:30:05","tapeEnd":"03:30:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"472-014","nextCode":"472-016","transcript":[{"start":0.62,"end":1.77,"text":"Call and wait."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to special counsel Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served as a procedural request to initiate communication with a key staff member. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this transition, as the recording captures only the operator's receipt of the directive.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:30:45.642Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"472-015.mp3","bytes":113475,"durationSec":4.67,"bitrate":194551,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.988Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/472-015.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/472-015","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/472/conversation-472-015","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}