{"conversationCode":"011-054","tapeNumber":11,"conversationNumber":54,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-011-054","startDateTime":"1971-10-12T13:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-12T13:58:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Oct-1971","startTime":"9:20 AM","endDate":"12-Oct-1971","endTime":"9:58 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","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 an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:58 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 011-054 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. 011-054\n\n Date: October 12, 1971\n Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 9:58 am\n Location: White House Telephone\n\nRichard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n The President talked with the White House operator.\n\n [See Conversation No. 288-11C]\n\n        Request for call to George P. Shultz","filename":["011-054.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:21:58","tapeEnd":"01:22:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"011-053","nextCode":"011-055","transcript":[{"start":0.88,"end":1.5,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.88,"end":2.22,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":2.52,"end":3,"text":"Henry?"},{"start":3.57,"end":4.45,"text":"Yes, Pete."},{"start":4.53,"end":7.04,"text":"Tell, uh, just a second."},{"start":7.06,"end":8.59,"text":"Get Schultz for me."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request through the White House operator to be connected with George P. Shultz. The brief exchange serves as a procedural step to facilitate a direct communication line between the President and his Director of the Office of Management and Budget. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["George P. Shultz","White House operations","Presidential communications","Administration logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:20:11.441Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","administration-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"011-054.mp3","bytes":304849,"durationSec":9.39,"bitrate":259652,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:35.686Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/011-054.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-054","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/11/conversation-011-054","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}