{"conversationCode":"018-049","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":49,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-049","startDateTime":"1972-01-10T22:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-10T22:16:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Jan-1972","startTime":"5:11 PM","endDate":"10-Jan-1972","endTime":"5:16 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 5:11 pm and 5:16 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-049 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. 18-49\n\nDate: January 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:11 pm and 5:16 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 313-24]\n\n     Request for a call to Herbert G. Klein","filename":["018-049.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:49:53","tapeEnd":"01:50:04","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-048","nextCode":"018-050","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":5.13,"text":"Operator?"},{"start":5.37,"end":8.14,"text":"Yeah, could I get the Herb Klein, please?"},{"start":8.16,"end":8.38,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":8.4,"end":8.94,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":9.02,"end":10.85,"text":"You're welcome."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate an outgoing call to Director of Communications Herbert G. Klein. The brief exchange served solely as a request to connect the President with Klein. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this initial operator interaction.","topics":["Herbert G. Klein","White House Communications","Presidential scheduling","Telephone operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:01:38.337Z"},"topicSlugs":["herbert-g-klein","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling","telephone-operations"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-049.mp3","bytes":270209,"durationSec":11.2,"bitrate":192990,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-049.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-049","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-049","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}