{"conversationCode":"011-121","tapeNumber":11,"conversationNumber":121,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-011-121","startDateTime":"1971-10-18T21:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-18T21:54:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:40 PM","endDate":"18-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:54 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 011-121 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. 011-121\n\n Date: October 18, 1971\n Time: Unknown between 5:40 pm and 5:54 pm\n Location: White House Telephone\n\n The President talked with the White House operator.\n\n [See Conversation No. 291-21]\n\n        Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["011-121.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:26:38","tapeEnd":"03:26:49","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"011-120","nextCode":"011-122","transcript":[{"start":3.02,"end":3.56,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":3.86,"end":6.98,"text":"Mr. President, Mr. Haldeman is out of his office, but he'll be back shortly."},{"start":7,"end":7.57,"text":"Could he call you?"},{"start":7.83,"end":8.05,"text":"Sure."},{"start":8.23,"end":8.69,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a phone call to his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, through the White House operator. Upon learning that Haldeman was currently unavailable, the President instructed the operator to have him return the call as soon as he returned to his office. No policy or substantive matters were discussed during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:26:29.707Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"011-121.mp3","bytes":371724,"durationSec":11.49,"bitrate":258745,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.040Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/011-121.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-121","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/11/conversation-011-121","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}