{"conversationCode":"011-161","tapeNumber":11,"conversationNumber":161,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-011-161","startDateTime":"1971-10-20T14:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-20T18:23:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Oct-1971","startTime":"10:35 AM","endDate":"20-Oct-1971","endTime":"2:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:35 am and 2:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 011-161 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. 011-161\n\n Date: October 20, 1971\n Time: Unknown between 10:35 am and 2:23 pm\n Location: White House Telephone\n\n The White House operator attempted to reach the President; connection was not completed.","filename":["011-161.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:11:17","tapeEnd":"05:11:22","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"011-160","nextCode":"011-162","transcript":[{"start":0.08,"end":0.49,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon was involved in an attempted telephone call facilitated by a White House operator. The connection failed to reach the intended party, resulting in no substantive dialogue or action items. Consequently, the brief interaction remains unrecorded in terms of policy or political developments.","topics":["White House communications","Presidential operations","failed connection"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:30:04.136Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","presidential-operations","failed-connection"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"011-161.mp3","bytes":117603,"durationSec":3.55,"bitrate":265102,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:35.699Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/011-161.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-161","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/11/conversation-011-161","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}