{"conversationCode":"012-020","tapeNumber":12,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-012-020","startDateTime":"1971-10-20T22:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-20T22:08:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Oct-1971","startTime":"6:08 PM","endDate":"20-Oct-1971","endTime":"6:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","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 6:08 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-020 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. 012-020\n\nDate: October 20, 1971\nTime: 6:08 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Telephone call from H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n\n[This is the original beginning of conversation No. 012-021, which has been merged with\nconversation 012-020.]\n\nH.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 282-36]\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Forthcoming Presidential announcement\n                -Supreme Court nomination\n          -George H. W. Bush\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["012-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:38:33","tapeEnd":"00:38:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"012-019","nextCode":"012-021","transcript":[{"start":0.77,"end":1.26,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.28,"end":2.9,"text":"Mr. Haldeman, sir."},{"start":2.92,"end":3.24,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"The White House operator facilitated a brief telephone call between President Nixon and H.R. Haldeman. The exchange served as a routine administrative connection to initiate a conversation between the two men. No substantive policy matters or specific decisions were discussed during this initial contact phase.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House communications","administrative coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:32:07.645Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-communications","administrative-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"012-020.mp3","bytes":90905,"durationSec":3.72,"bitrate":195617,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.043Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/012-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/012-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/12/conversation-012-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}