{"conversationCode":"012-066","tapeNumber":12,"conversationNumber":66,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-012-066","startDateTime":"1971-10-22T00:56:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-22T01:00:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Oct-1971","startTime":"8:56 PM","endDate":"21-Oct-1971","endTime":"9:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:56 pm and 9:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-066 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. 012-066\n\nDate: October 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:56 pm and 9:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n     Request for call to William P. Rogers","filename":["012-066.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:14:18","tapeEnd":"02:14:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"012-065","nextCode":"012-067","transcript":[{"start":0.32,"end":6.85,"text":"Secretary Rogers, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to place a telephone call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The brief exchange serves as a logistical coordination for the President to establish direct communication with his Secretary of State.","topics":["William P. Rogers","Presidential communication","White House operations","Diplomacy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:36:12.372Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","presidential-communication","white-house-operations","diplomacy"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"012-066.mp3","bytes":231339,"durationSec":9.57,"bitrate":193319,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.051Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/012-066.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/012-066","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/12/conversation-012-066","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}