{"conversationCode":"013-050","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":50,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-050","startDateTime":"1971-10-31T22:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-01T00:57:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:39 PM","endDate":"31-Oct-1971","endTime":"7:57 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 5:39 pm and 7:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-050 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. 013-050\n\nDate: October 31, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:39 pm and 7:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["013-050.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:47:34","tapeEnd":"01:47:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-049","nextCode":"013-051","transcript":[{"start":3.49,"end":4.2,"text":"Coulson, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief request for the White House operator to connect him with Charles W. Colson. This communication serves as a standard administrative coordination to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and his Special Counsel. No further substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:46:33.231Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-050.mp3","bytes":149837,"durationSec":6.18,"bitrate":194001,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-050.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-050","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-050","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}