{"conversationCode":"003-012","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-012","startDateTime":"1971-05-12T19:27:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-12T19:27:00.000Z","startDate":"12-May-1971","startTime":"3:27 PM","endDate":"12-May-1971","endTime":"3:27 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 3:27 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-012 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. 003-012\n\nDate: May 12, 1971\nTime: 3:27 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Gerald R. Ford\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["003-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:16:57","tapeEnd":"00:17:03","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-011","nextCode":"003-013","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.81,"text":"Congressman Ford, please."},{"start":2.87,"end":3.44,"text":"Gerald Ford?"},{"start":3.46,"end":3.62,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":3.78,"end":4.52,"text":"Right, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to be connected with Congressman Gerald R. Ford. This brief exchange serves strictly as a procedural effort to establish telephonic communication between the President and the House Minority Leader. No substantive policy matters or political strategies were discussed during this initial operator interaction.","topics":["Gerald R. Ford","White House operations","Presidential communication","Congressional relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:21:43.262Z"},"topicSlugs":["gerald-r-ford","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","congressional-relations"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-012.mp3","bytes":65536,"durationSec":5.03,"bitrate":104172,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.592Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}