{"conversationCode":"001-072","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":72,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-072","startDateTime":"1971-04-13T00:23:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-13T00:25:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Apr-1971","startTime":"7:23 PM","endDate":"12-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;","description":"On April 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 7:23 pm to 7:25 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-072 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. 1-72\n\nDate: April 12, 1971\nTime: 7:23 pm - 7:25 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.\n\n     Kissinger's schedule\n\n     Invitation to dinner","filename":["001-072.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:21:27","tapeEnd":"02:21:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Kissinger, Henry A."],"prevCode":"001-071","nextCode":"001-073","transcript":[{"start":0.07,"end":0.31,"text":"Hello."},{"start":0.37,"end":1.09,"text":"Mr. President."},{"start":1.11,"end":3.79,"text":"Do you finish your meeting or are you still having it?"},{"start":3.81,"end":8.14,"text":"I still have it, but it'll last another five or ten minutes."},{"start":8.44,"end":8.64,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":9.4,"end":10.86,"text":"Are you going out to dinner?"},{"start":11.54,"end":12.7,"text":"No, I was going to stay here."},{"start":12.98,"end":15.3,"text":"If you want to come over, we'll give you something to eat here."},{"start":15.64,"end":16.72,"text":"Oh, that's very nice."},{"start":16.76,"end":19.36,"text":"Why don't you come over to the Lincoln Room just as soon as you can finish."},{"start":19.41,"end":21.07,"text":"I'll tell him to serve it in about ten minutes."},{"start":21.45,"end":22.47,"text":"Can you be here in ten minutes?"},{"start":23.59,"end":24.93,"text":"Can I make it fifteen?"},{"start":25.01,"end":26.01,"text":"Fifteen minutes is fine."},{"start":26.09,"end":26.27,"text":"Good."},{"start":26.61,"end":27.77,"text":"I'll be over in fifteen minutes."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon calls Henry Kissinger to check on the status of an ongoing meeting and invites him to dinner at the White House. They coordinate their schedules, agreeing that Kissinger will join the President in the Lincoln Room in fifteen minutes. The call serves primarily as a social coordination effort between the two officials.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House social events","scheduling","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:58:02.481Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-social-events","scheduling","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":28,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-072.mp3","bytes":676466,"durationSec":28.12,"bitrate":192451,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.350Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-072.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-072","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-072","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}