{"conversationCode":"014-018","tapeNumber":14,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-014-018","startDateTime":"1971-11-10T19:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-10T20:09:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Nov-1971","startTime":"2:54 PM","endDate":"10-Nov-1971","endTime":"3:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:54 pm and 3:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 014-018 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. 14-18\n\nDate: November 10, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:54 pm and 3:09 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 299-15A]\n\n     Richard J. Daley's location\n          -Secretary\n                -Location","filename":["014-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:22:56","tapeEnd":"00:23:21","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"014-017","nextCode":"014-019","transcript":[{"start":0.79,"end":1.17,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.33,"end":5.3,"text":"Mr. President, Mayor Daley is out someplace, and his secretary happens to be at luncheon two."},{"start":5.62,"end":7.68,"text":"She's going to try to locate him, but it might be a half hour or not."},{"start":7.72,"end":9.24,"text":"Do you want me to leave a word, or have you tried back?"},{"start":10.08,"end":18.55,"text":"Uh, his secretary is... She happens to be at luncheon two, but I did contact her, sir, so I'll try to locate the mayor for you, but it might be a half hour before he could return the call."},{"start":18.94,"end":20.42,"text":"Well, I could talk to his secretary, then."},{"start":20.48,"end":21.66,"text":"Would you like to talk to his secretary?"},{"start":21.68,"end":21.84,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":22,"end":23.32,"text":"Fine, Mr. President, I'll call you right back."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate an urgent telephone connection with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Upon learning that Daley was unavailable and his secretary was at lunch, the President instructed the operator to patch him through to the secretary instead. The interaction reflects the President's efforts to establish direct communication with the Mayor, though the specific purpose of the intended discussion remained unstated.","topics":["Richard J. Daley","Presidential communication","Chicago politics","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:57:52.917Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-j-daley","presidential-communication","chicago-politics","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":24,"audioFiles":[{"file":"014-018.mp3","bytes":787176,"durationSec":24.49,"bitrate":257144,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.322Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/014-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/014-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/014/conversation-014-018","catalogNaId":417190567,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417190567","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}