{"conversationCode":"661-004","tapeNumber":661,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-661-004","startDateTime":"1972-01-31T21:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-31T21:01:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Jan-1972","startTime":"4:00 PM","endDate":"31-Jan-1972","endTime":"4:01 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 31, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:01 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 661-004 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 661-4\n\nDate: January 31, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:01 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 20-6]","filename":["661-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:29:48","tapeEnd":"02:30:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"661-003","nextCode":"661-005","transcript":[{"start":0.31,"end":2.43,"text":"Could you get me Ms. Arch?"},{"start":3.35,"end":4.5,"text":"That's Leslie Arch, 544-7773."},{"start":4.9,"end":5.6,"text":"Right, thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator place an outgoing call to Leslie Arch. He provided the operator with the specific contact name and telephone number to facilitate the connection. No further discussion or substantive policy matters were recorded during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["Telecommunications","White House operations","Administrative task"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:09:15.536Z"},"topicSlugs":["telecommunications","white-house-operations","administrative-task"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"661-004.mp3","bytes":482530,"durationSec":11.93,"bitrate":323453,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.979Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/661-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/661-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/661/conversation-661-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}