{"conversationCode":"012-002","tapeNumber":12,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-012-002","startDateTime":"1971-10-20T19:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-20T19:06:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Oct-1971","startTime":"3:00 PM","endDate":"20-Oct-1971","endTime":"3:06 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 3:00 pm and 3:06 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-002 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. 012-002\n\nDate: October 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:06 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 282-11]\n\n     Request for call to Donald H. Rumsfeld","filename":["012-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:08:28","tapeEnd":"00:08:34","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"012-001","nextCode":"012-003","transcript":[{"start":3.59,"end":5.8,"text":"Rumsfeld, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to place a telephone call to Donald H. Rumsfeld. The brief exchange serves as a procedural step for the President to establish communication with his advisor. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief request.","topics":["Donald H. Rumsfeld","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:30:31.289Z"},"topicSlugs":["donald-h-rumsfeld","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"012-002.mp3","bytes":165510,"durationSec":6.83,"bitrate":193935,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/012-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/012-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/12/conversation-012-002","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}