{"conversationCode":"013-079","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":79,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-079","startDateTime":"1971-11-03T04:28:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-03T04:44:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Nov-1971","startTime":"11:28 PM","endDate":"2-Nov-1971","endTime":"11:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:28 pm and 11:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-079 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. 013-079\n\nDate: November 2, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:28 pm and 11:44 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":["013-079.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:50:35","tapeEnd":"02:50:39","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-078","nextCode":"013-080","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":5.64,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate an urgent telephone call to National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. The conversation served solely as a logistical request to establish communication between the President and his advisor. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:49:09.789Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-079.mp3","bytes":136044,"durationSec":5.59,"bitrate":194619,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.042Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.411Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-079.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-079","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-079","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}