{"conversationCode":"013-153","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":153,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-153","startDateTime":"1971-11-05T17:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-05T17:52:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Nov-1971","startTime":"12:25 PM","endDate":"5-Nov-1971","endTime":"12:52 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:25 pm and 12:52 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-153 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. 013-153\n\nDate: November 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:25 pm and 12:52 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":["013-153.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:23:15","tapeEnd":"04:23:21","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-152","nextCode":"013-154","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.95,"text":"Coulson, please."},{"start":3.19,"end":5.08,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to initiate communication with a key staff member. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House communications","administrative request","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:55:43.881Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-communications","administrative-request","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-153.mp3","bytes":132910,"durationSec":5.48,"bitrate":194054,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.042Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.420Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-153.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-153","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-153","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}