{"conversationCode":"011-012","tapeNumber":11,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-011-012","startDateTime":"1971-10-08T00:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-08T01:03:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Oct-1971","startTime":"8:58 PM","endDate":"7-Oct-1971","endTime":"9:03 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:58 pm and 9:03 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 011-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 011-012\n\n Date: October 7, 1971\n Time: Unknown between 8:58 pm and 9:03 pm\n Location: White House Telephone\n\n The President talked with the White House operator.\n\n        Request for call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["011-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:18:51","tapeEnd":"00:18:57","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"011-011","nextCode":"011-013","transcript":[{"start":4.3,"end":7.32,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served exclusively as a logistical step to initiate the communication between the President and his aide. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this brief request for assistance.","topics":["White House operator","Charles W. Colson","logistics","presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:16:23.493Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","charles-w-colson","logistics","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"011-012.mp3","bytes":237140,"durationSec":7.28,"bitrate":260450,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:35.681Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/011-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/11/conversation-011-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}