{"conversationCode":"002-013","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":13,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-013","startDateTime":"1971-04-20T21:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-20T21:59:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Apr-1971","startTime":"4:42 PM","endDate":"20-Apr-1971","endTime":"4:59 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 4:59 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-013 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. 2-13\n\nDate: April 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:42 pm and 4:59 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 483-19A]\n\n     Call to John N. Mitchell's secretary, Sue Morrison\n                                                                                               Back to Top\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["002-013.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:13:52","tapeEnd":"00:14:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-012","nextCode":"002-014","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.1,"text":"Good time."},{"start":2.92,"end":3.89,"text":"No, I don't want to cancel it."},{"start":3.91,"end":5.94,"text":"Get Mr. Mitchell's secretary, please."},{"start":6.64,"end":7.14,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":7.16,"end":8.91,"text":"Attorney General's secretary."},{"start":8.93,"end":9.11,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to connect him with Sue Morrison, the secretary to Attorney General John N. Mitchell. The call was initiated specifically to facilitate communication with Mitchell’s office rather than to cancel any existing arrangements. This brief exchange served as a logistical step to establish direct contact between the President and the Attorney General's staff.","topics":["John N. Mitchell","White House operations","Communications","Attorney General"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:08:38.206Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-n-mitchell","white-house-operations","communications","attorney-general"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-013.mp3","bytes":225697,"durationSec":9.33,"bitrate":193460,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.350Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:32.958Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-013.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-013","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-013","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}