{"conversationCode":"012-097","tapeNumber":12,"conversationNumber":97,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-012-097","startDateTime":"1971-10-23T01:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-23T02:00:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Oct-1971","startTime":"9:52 PM","endDate":"22-Oct-1971","endTime":"10:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:52 pm and 10:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-097 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. 012-097\n\nDate: October 22, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:52 pm and 10:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis","filename":["012-097.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:53:51","tapeEnd":"03:54:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"012-096","nextCode":"012-098","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":7.7,"text":"Try Mr. Hobart Lewis, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Hobart D. “Hobe” Lewis. The brief interaction served exclusively as a logistical request to initiate communication with Lewis. No substantive policy discussions or decisions were addressed during this exchange.","topics":["Hobart D. Lewis","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:38:59.595Z"},"topicSlugs":["hobart-d-lewis","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"012-097.mp3","bytes":233847,"durationSec":9.68,"bitrate":193261,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.056Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/012-097.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/012-097","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/12/conversation-012-097","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}