{"conversationCode":"018-046","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":46,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-046","startDateTime":"1972-01-10T21:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-10T21:12:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Jan-1972","startTime":"4:08 PM","endDate":"10-Jan-1972","endTime":"4:12 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 4:08 pm and 4:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-046 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. 18-46\n\nDate: January 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:08 pm and 4:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 313-21G]\n\n     Request for a call to Melvin R. Laird","filename":["018-046.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:34:17","tapeEnd":"01:34:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-045","nextCode":"018-047","transcript":[{"start":2.44,"end":3.01,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.03,"end":3.68,"text":"Layard, please."},{"start":3.85,"end":4.76,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird. The conversation was brief and strictly administrative in nature, serving only to initiate communication with the Pentagon chief. No further substantive policy matters were addressed during this exchange.","topics":["Melvin Laird","Secretary of Defense","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:01:21.737Z"},"topicSlugs":["melvin-laird","secretary-of-defense","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-046.mp3","bytes":141060,"durationSec":5.8,"bitrate":194549,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-046.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-046","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-046","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}