{"conversationCode":"018-020","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-020","startDateTime":"1972-01-09T18:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-09T18:25:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Jan-1972","startTime":"1:18 PM","endDate":"9-Jan-1972","endTime":"1:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 1:25 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-020 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. 18-20\n\nDate: January 9, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:18 pm and 1:25 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods","filename":["018-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:58:52","tapeEnd":"00:59:04","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-019","nextCode":"018-021","transcript":[{"start":5.67,"end":7.29,"text":"Look at me, Miss Woods, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an immediate telephone connection with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to locate and connect the President to a key member of his inner staff. No policy matters or substantive political issues were addressed during this brief procedural communication.","topics":["Rose Mary Woods","White House operations","Presidential communications","Staff coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:58:56.679Z"},"topicSlugs":["rose-mary-woods","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","staff-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-020.mp3","bytes":251401,"durationSec":10.4,"bitrate":193369,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}