{"conversationCode":"005-118","tapeNumber":5,"conversationNumber":118,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-005-118","startDateTime":"1971-06-18T00:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-18T00:00:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Jun-1971","startTime":"8:00 PM","endDate":"17-Jun-1971","endTime":"8:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 8:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 005-118 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. 5-118\n\nDate: June 18, 1971\nTime: 8:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Gerald R. Ford","filename":["005-118.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:39:51","tapeEnd":"03:39:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"005-117","nextCode":"005-119","transcript":[{"start":1.11,"end":4.57,"text":"Congressman Ford, please."},{"start":4.59,"end":5.42,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a call to Congressman Gerald R. Ford. This brief exchange served as a logistical step to initiate direct communication between the President and the House Minority Leader. No further substantive discussion took place during this specific segment of the recording.","topics":["Gerald R. Ford","White House operations","Presidential communications","Legislative relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:00:51.363Z"},"topicSlugs":["gerald-r-ford","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","legislative-relations"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"005-118.mp3","bytes":75090,"durationSec":6.88,"bitrate":87256,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.078Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/005-118.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/005-118","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/5/conversation-005-118","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}