{"conversationCode":"018-023","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":23,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-023","startDateTime":"1972-01-09T19:56:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-09T19:57:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Jan-1972","startTime":"2:56 PM","endDate":"9-Jan-1972","endTime":"2:57 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Moore, Nora L.;","description":"On January 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Nora L. Moore talked on the telephone from 2:56 pm to 2:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-023 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. 18-23\n\nDate: January 9, 1972\nTime: 2:56 pm - 2:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Nora L. Moore.\n\n[See Conversation No. 312-14]\n\n     Birthday greetings to Mrs. Moore\n\n     Maj. Gen. Leslie E. Brown's record\n\n     Support for the President","filename":["018-023.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:01:27","tapeEnd":"01:02:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Moore, Nora L."],"prevCode":"018-022","nextCode":"018-024","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.33,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.5,"end":3.52,"text":"Mr. President, I have Mrs. Nora E. Moore now."},{"start":4.04,"end":4.3,"text":"Yes."},{"start":4.42,"end":4.82,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":6.23,"end":7.69,"text":"Mr. Moore, the President is on the line."},{"start":8.59,"end":8.97,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":9.62,"end":9.86,"text":"Hello."},{"start":10.4,"end":12.51,"text":"I just called to wish you a happy birthday."},{"start":12.96,"end":18.57,"text":"Your son told me, the general told me that you had the same birthday as mine, so I wanted to wish you the very best."},{"start":18.93,"end":24.04,"text":"Thank you, and may I say I'm about to faint, and that this is the thrill of my life."},{"start":24.2,"end":26.48,"text":"Well, anyway, you can be very proud of him."},{"start":26.5,"end":32.35,"text":"He has a great record as a Marine, and we just want you to have many happy returns."},{"start":32.67,"end":34.7,"text":"Well, thank you, and the same to you, because it's"},{"start":34.67,"end":36.22,"text":"That's right."},{"start":36.58,"end":44.99,"text":"May I just add that I was to quite an affair for our town last night, and you had many supporters there."},{"start":45.43,"end":45.53,"text":"Good."},{"start":45.55,"end":48.94,"text":"You're going to get a lot of votes for our little town of Yucaipa."},{"start":49.02,"end":49.6,"text":"Yucaipa?"},{"start":49.62,"end":50.54,"text":"Oh, that's a great place."},{"start":50.56,"end":51.36,"text":"I've been there."},{"start":51.4,"end":52.38,"text":"Yes, it is."},{"start":52.5,"end":53.86,"text":"Thank you so much."},{"start":54.22,"end":55.62,"text":"Still unspoiled and nice."},{"start":56.05,"end":56.99,"text":"Right."},{"start":57.01,"end":57.51,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":57.53,"end":58.51,"text":"Yucaipa."},{"start":58.75,"end":59.29,"text":"Okay."},{"start":59.33,"end":60.17,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":60.29,"end":60.67,"text":"Bye."},{"start":60.93,"end":61.49,"text":"Bye-bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief, informal phone call to Nora L. Moore to convey birthday greetings after learning they shared the same birth date. During the conversation, Nixon praised the military record of Moore’s son, Major General Leslie E. Brown. Moore responded by assuring the President of his strong political support in her hometown of Yucaipa, California.","topics":["Birthday greetings","Leslie E. Brown","Political support","Yucaipa","Personal correspondence"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:59:13.238Z"},"topicSlugs":["birthday-greetings","leslie-e-brown","political-support","yucaipa","personal-correspondence"],"audioDurationSec":62,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-023.mp3","bytes":1480201,"durationSec":61.61,"bitrate":192218,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-023.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-023","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-023","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}