{"conversationCode":"013-053","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":53,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-053","startDateTime":"1971-11-01T18:46:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-01T19:29:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Nov-1971","startTime":"1:46 PM","endDate":"1-Nov-1971","endTime":"2:29 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 1, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-053 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. 013-053\n\nDate: November 1, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 302-26]\n\n     Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["013-053.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:03:19","tapeEnd":"02:03:28","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-052","nextCode":"013-054","transcript":[{"start":2.46,"end":3.17,"text":"Hmm."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection to First Lady Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon. The brief exchange served as a logistical step to initiate personal communication between the President and his wife. No substantive policy discussions or administrative decisions were recorded during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House switchboard","Presidential communications","Personal calls"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:46:49.589Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-switchboard","presidential-communications","personal-calls"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-053.mp3","bytes":217546,"durationSec":8.99,"bitrate":193644,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-053.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-053","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-053","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}