{"conversationCode":"002-018","tapeNumber":2,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-002-018","startDateTime":"1971-04-21T00:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-21T00:34:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Apr-1971","startTime":"7:34 PM","endDate":"20-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:34 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","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 7:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-018 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. 2-18\n\nDate: April 20, 1971\nTime: 7:34 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Henry A. Kissinger's location","filename":["002-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:18:26","tapeEnd":"00:18:37","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"002-017","nextCode":"002-019","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.73,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":0.75,"end":5.69,"text":"Mr. President, Dr. Kissinger is in the Situation Room in a meeting, and the Secretary is getting a note to him."},{"start":6.96,"end":8.24,"text":"All right, when it's convenient."},{"start":8.26,"end":9.06,"text":"All right, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon received a status update from the White House operator regarding the location of National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. The operator informed the President that Kissinger was attending a meeting in the Situation Room and confirmed that a message was being delivered to him. Nixon acknowledged the report and requested that Kissinger contact him once he became available.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Situation Room","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:09:10.624Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","situation-room","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"002-018.mp3","bytes":235728,"durationSec":9.74,"bitrate":193600,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/002-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/2/conversation-002-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}