{"conversationCode":"013-122","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":122,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-122","startDateTime":"1971-11-04T21:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-04T21:39:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Nov-1971","startTime":"4:02 PM","endDate":"4-Nov-1971","endTime":"4:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Busia, Kofi A.; Peterson, Peter G.;","description":"On November 4, 1971, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, Kofi A. Busia, and Peter G. Peterson talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:39 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-122 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. 013-122\n\nDate: November 4, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:02 pm and 4:39 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nAlexander M. Haig talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 614-12A]\n\n     Request for a call to Peter G. Peterson\n\nThe President can be heard in the background with Kofi A. Busia.\n\nHaig talked with Peter G. Peterson at an unknown time.\n\n     Peterson's schedule\n           -Meeting with Busia","filename":["013-122.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:00:38","tapeEnd":"04:06:00","participantsList":["Haig, Alexander M., Jr.","White House operator","Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Busia, Kofi A.","Peterson, Peter G."],"prevCode":"013-121","nextCode":"013-123","transcript":[{"start":3.78,"end":33.08,"text":"uh mr peterson please foreign you uh i i didn't get the check the uh now you're uh we talked before uh you how many children do you have before two boys and two girls i want to give you a couple of trinkets to take home"},{"start":33.98,"end":36.51,"text":"You have a boy in Oxford."},{"start":38.37,"end":39.03,"text":"You don't look old."},{"start":40.11,"end":41.01,"text":"You're lucky."},{"start":42.69,"end":43.87,"text":"Well, that's great."},{"start":46.03,"end":48.6,"text":"Well, it's wonderful to see them."},{"start":50.42,"end":53.4,"text":"Are you Mr. Peterson?"},{"start":53.42,"end":55.46,"text":"Yes, I am."},{"start":55.48,"end":59.23,"text":"Oh, yeah, it's fine."},{"start":59.49,"end":60.01,"text":"Tell them."},{"start":61.37,"end":62.05,"text":"Oh, here he is."},{"start":62.07,"end":64.12,"text":"I want to take a picture of you."},{"start":64.14,"end":66.64,"text":"There you are."},{"start":66.66,"end":66.94,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":67.4,"end":67.82,"text":"Hello."},{"start":68.3,"end":68.66,"text":"Pete?"},{"start":68.68,"end":69.04,"text":"Yes."},{"start":69.08,"end":70.17,"text":"I'm with the President."},{"start":70.85,"end":72.37,"text":"He wonders if you could come right over."},{"start":73.57,"end":77.52,"text":"He's got the Prime Minister of Ghana here, and he wants you to meet him."},{"start":77.56,"end":79.12,"text":"All right, fine."},{"start":79.14,"end":79.5,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon, hosting Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi A. Busia at the White House, requested that Alexander Haig arrange for Peter G. Peterson to join them for a meeting. Haig successfully contacted Peterson to facilitate this introduction. The call served primarily as a logistical coordination to include Peterson in the ongoing diplomatic discussion with the Ghanaian leader.","topics":["Kofi A. Busia","Peter G. Peterson","Alexander M. Haig","Diplomatic relations","Ghana","White House scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:52:58.866Z"},"topicSlugs":["kofi-a-busia","peter-g-peterson","alexander-m-haig","diplomatic-relations","ghana","white-house-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":81,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-122.mp3","bytes":1952286,"durationSec":81.29,"bitrate":192123,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-122.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-122","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-122","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}