{"conversationCode":"013-037","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":37,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-037","startDateTime":"1971-10-29T19:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-29T20:10:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Oct-1971","startTime":"3:20 PM","endDate":"29-Oct-1971","endTime":"4:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:20 pm and 4:10 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-037 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. 013-037\n\nDate: October 29, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:20 pm and 4:10 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 302-18A]\n\n     Request for a call to George P. Shultz","filename":["013-037.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:27:18","tapeEnd":"01:27:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-036","nextCode":"013-038","transcript":[{"start":0.66,"end":4.6,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.66,"end":5.25,"text":"George Schultz."},{"start":5.47,"end":6.41,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to place a telephone call to George P. Shultz, then serving as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The conversation serves solely as a brief administrative coordination to facilitate direct communication between the President and Shultz. No substantive policy discussions occur during this brief operator-assisted exchange.","topics":["George P. Shultz","White House communications","administrative coordination","Office of Management and Budget"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:45:23.701Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","white-house-communications","administrative-coordination","office-of-management-and-budget"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-037.mp3","bytes":226324,"durationSec":9.37,"bitrate":193277,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.405Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-037.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-037","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-037","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}