{"conversationCode":"011-048","tapeNumber":11,"conversationNumber":48,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-011-048","startDateTime":"1971-10-12T12:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-12T12:30:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Oct-1971","startTime":"8:30 AM","endDate":"12-Oct-1971","endTime":"8:30 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 8:30 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 011-048 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. 011-048\n\n Date: October 12, 1971\n Time: 8:30 am\n Location: White House Telephone\n\n The President talked with the White House operator.\n\n [See Conversation No. 288-5]\n\n        Request for call to Ronald L. Ziegler","filename":["011-048.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:14:01","tapeEnd":"01:14:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"011-047","nextCode":"011-049","transcript":[{"start":3.52,"end":4.47,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.5,"end":5.18,"text":"Cigarette, please."},{"start":5.3,"end":6.19,"text":"Yes, Mr. Patrick."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief interaction served purely as a logistical request to initiate communication with a key staff member. No policy discussions occurred during this exchange, as its sole purpose was to place an outgoing call.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","White House operations","Presidential communications","Staff coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:19:39.180Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","staff-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"011-048.mp3","bytes":255530,"durationSec":7.86,"bitrate":260112,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.040Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:35.686Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/011-048.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-048","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/11/conversation-011-048","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}