{"conversationCode":"001-020","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-020","startDateTime":"1971-04-08T03:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-08T03:21:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Apr-1971","startTime":"10:20 PM","endDate":"7-Apr-1971","endTime":"10:21 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:20 pm and 10:21 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-020 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 1-20\n\nDate: April 7, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:20 pm and 10:21 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["001-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:51:19","tapeEnd":"00:51:24","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-019","nextCode":"001-021","transcript":[{"start":0.56,"end":0.76,"text":"Please."},{"start":0.8,"end":1.63,"text":"Not to catch you, please."},{"start":1.65,"end":2.11,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator place a telephone call to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical request to initiate communication between the President and his advisor. No further substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:42:03.154Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":2,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-020.mp3","bytes":58304,"durationSec":2.36,"bitrate":197426,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}