{"conversationCode":"013-039","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":39,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-039","startDateTime":"1971-10-29T20:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-29T20:55:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Oct-1971","startTime":"4:11 PM","endDate":"29-Oct-1971","endTime":"4:55 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 4:11 pm and 4:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-039 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. 013-039\n\nDate: October 29, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:11 pm and 4:55 pm\n\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 302-18C]\n\n     Request for a call to John C. Whitaker","filename":["013-039.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:27:55","tapeEnd":"01:28:03","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-038","nextCode":"013-040","transcript":[{"start":3.41,"end":4.94,"text":"John Whitaker."},{"start":5.74,"end":7.27,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to John C. Whitaker. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication with a member of the White House staff. No further substantive discussion or policy deliberations occurred during this exchange.","topics":["John C. Whitaker","White House operations","telecommunications","administrative task"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:45:34.201Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-c-whitaker","white-house-operations","telecommunications","administrative-tasks"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-039.mp3","bytes":183065,"durationSec":7.57,"bitrate":193361,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.406Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-039.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-039","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/013/conversation-013-039","catalogNaId":417190293,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417190293","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}