{"conversationCode":"012-005","tapeNumber":12,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-012-005","startDateTime":"1971-10-20T19:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-20T19:40:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Oct-1971","startTime":"3:39 PM","endDate":"20-Oct-1971","endTime":"3:40 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 3:39 pm and 3:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-005 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. 012-005\n\nDate: October 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:39 pm and 3:40 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 282-14C]\n\n     Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["012-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:15:10","tapeEnd":"00:15:14","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"012-004","nextCode":"012-006","transcript":[{"start":2.58,"end":4.1,"text":"Miss Nixon, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone request for the White House operator to connect him with First Lady Pat Nixon. The call serves as a routine administrative task to establish communication with his wife. No substantive political or policy matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:30:47.288Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"012-005.mp3","bytes":141687,"durationSec":5.85,"bitrate":193913,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/012-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/012-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/12/conversation-012-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}