{"conversationCode":"018-041","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":41,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-041","startDateTime":"1972-01-10T20:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-10T20:42:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Jan-1972","startTime":"3:34 PM","endDate":"10-Jan-1972","endTime":"3:42 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:34 pm and 3:42 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-041 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. 18-41\n\nDate: January 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:34 pm and 3:42 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 313-21B]\n\n     Telephone call cut-off\n          -Request for a call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham","filename":["018-041.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:22:33","tapeEnd":"01:22:45","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-040","nextCode":"018-042","transcript":[{"start":4.42,"end":6.71,"text":"Operator, I got cut off from Mr. Graham."},{"start":6.81,"end":8.51,"text":"It's a and I guess it's a bad connection."},{"start":8.53,"end":9.63,"text":"Would you try him again, please?"},{"start":9.65,"end":10.9,"text":"Yes, I certainly will, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator after being inadvertently disconnected during a telephone conversation with Billy Graham. He instructed the operator to re-establish the connection to resume his discussion with the evangelist. This brief administrative exchange served solely to rectify a technical failure in the communication line.","topics":["Billy Graham","Telephone communication","White House operations","Technical difficulties"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:00:53.101Z"},"topicSlugs":["billy-graham","telephone-communication","white-house-operations","technical-difficulties"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-041.mp3","bytes":299048,"durationSec":12.4,"bitrate":192918,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-041.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-041","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-041","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}