{"conversationCode":"012-101","tapeNumber":12,"conversationNumber":101,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-012-101","startDateTime":"1971-10-23T13:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-23T15:18:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Oct-1971","startTime":"9:45 AM","endDate":"23-Oct-1971","endTime":"11:18 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:45 am and 11:18 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-101 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. 012-101\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nDate: October 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:45 am and 11:18 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 601-12A]\n\n     Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["012-101.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:56:59","tapeEnd":"03:57:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"012-100","nextCode":"012-102","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":8.37,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a personal telephone call to First Lady Thelma C. “Pat” Nixon. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical bridge to connect the President with his wife. No substantive policy matters or major political decisions were addressed during this exchange.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communication","personal calls"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:39:21.099Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","personal-calls"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"012-101.mp3","bytes":201246,"durationSec":8.33,"bitrate":193289,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.040Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.056Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/012-101.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/012-101","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/12/conversation-012-101","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}