{"conversationCode":"013-061","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":61,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-061","startDateTime":"1971-11-02T01:03:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-02T01:12:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Nov-1971","startTime":"8:03 PM","endDate":"1-Nov-1971","endTime":"8:12 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 8:03 pm and 8:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-061 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. 013-061\n\nDate: November 1, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:03 pm and 8:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["013-061.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:27:51","tapeEnd":"02:27:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-060","nextCode":"013-062","transcript":[{"start":0.1,"end":6.63,"text":"Dr. Kessinger, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a call to his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. The brief communication served solely as a request to connect with Kissinger to discuss high-level national security matters. This interaction reflects the standard procedural workflow for the President to reach his primary foreign policy aide.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","National Security","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:47:32.317Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","national-security","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-061.mp3","bytes":159868,"durationSec":6.59,"bitrate":194050,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.409Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-061.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-061","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-061","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}