{"conversationCode":"013-048","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":48,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-048","startDateTime":"1971-10-31T22:28:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-31T22:30:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:28 PM","endDate":"31-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 31, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:28 pm and 5:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-048 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. 013-048\n\nDate: October 31, 1971\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nTime: Unknown between 5:28 pm and 5:30 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":["013-048.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:38:19","tapeEnd":"01:38:24","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-047","nextCode":"013-049","transcript":[{"start":0.05,"end":5.2,"text":"Haldeman, please."},{"start":5.21,"end":5.42,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief request for the White House operator to connect him with Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman. This short exchange serves as a routine administrative step to establish communication with a key advisor. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occur during this brief operator-assisted connection attempt.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House communications","administrative procedure","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:46:22.380Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-communications","administrative-procedure","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-048.mp3","bytes":131029,"durationSec":5.38,"bitrate":194782,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.407Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-048.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-048","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-048","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}