{"conversationCode":"001-071","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":71,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-071","startDateTime":"1971-04-12T23:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-13T00:23:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Apr-1971","startTime":"6:22 PM","endDate":"12-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:22 pm and 7:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-071 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. 1-71\n\nDate: April 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:22 pm and 7:23 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["001-071.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:21:22","tapeEnd":"02:21:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-070","nextCode":"001-072","transcript":[{"start":0.25,"end":1.34,"text":"Doctor Kissinger, please."},{"start":1.36,"end":1.89,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact his National Security Advisor, Henry A. Kissinger. The primary purpose of this communication is to facilitate a direct line of dialogue with Kissinger regarding ongoing diplomatic or national security matters. The exchange concludes once the operator begins processing the connection request.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication","National security"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:57:57.116Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","national-security"],"audioDurationSec":2,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-071.mp3","bytes":55169,"durationSec":2.23,"bitrate":198236,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-071.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-071","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-071","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}