{"conversationCode":"890-029","tapeNumber":890,"conversationNumber":29,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-890-029","startDateTime":"1973-03-30T18:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-30T18:22:00.000Z","startDate":"30-Mar-1973","startTime":"1:10 PM","endDate":"30-Mar-1973","endTime":"1:22 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 30, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:10 pm and 1:22 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 890-029 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 890-29\n\nDate: March 30, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:22 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 44-101]\n\f                                             -46-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["890-029.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"890-028","nextCode":"890-030","transcript":[{"start":0.7,"end":1.12,"text":"Okay, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief, routine communication with the White House operator to place an outgoing call. No substantive policy matters or political developments are discussed during this short administrative interaction. The recording primarily serves as a procedural example of the President utilizing the internal switchboard to facilitate his daily schedule.","topics":["White House operator","Telecommunications","Administrative routine","Oval Office operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-08T23:17:26.593Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","telecommunications","administrative-routine","oval-office-operations"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"890-029.mp3","bytes":92160,"durationSec":13.97,"bitrate":52763,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.069Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:56.811Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/890-029.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/890-029","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/890/conversation-890-029","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}