{"conversationCode":"013-017","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-017","startDateTime":"1971-10-26T23:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-27T00:01:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Oct-1971","startTime":"7:52 PM","endDate":"26-Oct-1971","endTime":"8:01 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:52 pm and 8:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-017 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. 013-017\n\nDate: October 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:52 pm and 8:01 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["013-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:30:26","tapeEnd":"00:30:32","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-016","nextCode":"013-018","transcript":[{"start":0.05,"end":3.87,"text":"Parliamentary."},{"start":3.88,"end":4.17,"text":"Parliamentary."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. The brief exchange served exclusively as a logistical request to initiate this high-level communication. No substantive policy matters were discussed during this operator-assisted interaction.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:43:35.413Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-017.mp3","bytes":144821,"durationSec":5.98,"bitrate":193757,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}