{"conversationCode":"018-013","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":13,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-013","startDateTime":"1972-01-03T21:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-03T22:15:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Jan-1972","startTime":"4:44 PM","endDate":"3-Jan-1972","endTime":"5:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-013 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 18-13\n\nDate: January 3, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 643-13A]\n\n     Request for a call to William P. Rogers","filename":["018-013.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:19:59","tapeEnd":"00:20:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-012","nextCode":"018-014","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.94,"text":"Secretary Rogers."},{"start":5,"end":6.11,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The brief exchange served as a logistical bridge to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and his top diplomat. This action initiated immediate communication between the two officials regarding undisclosed administrative or foreign policy matters.","topics":["William P. Rogers","White House operations","Presidential communication","State Department"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:58:18.081Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","state-department"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-013.mp3","bytes":159868,"durationSec":6.6,"bitrate":193763,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-013.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-013","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/018/conversation-018-013","catalogNaId":417192121,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417192121","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}