{"conversationCode":"018-061","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":61,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-061","startDateTime":"1972-01-11T01:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-11T01:53:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Jan-1972","startTime":"8:06 PM","endDate":"10-Jan-1972","endTime":"8:53 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 8:06 pm and 8:53 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-061 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. 18-61\n\nDate: January 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:06 pm and 8:53 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Paul W. Keyes","filename":["018-061.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:30:38","tapeEnd":"02:30:45","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-060","nextCode":"018-062","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":2.74,"text":"Yes please."},{"start":7.08,"end":7.24,"text":"Yes sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Paul W. Keyes. The interaction served strictly as a logistical request to facilitate communication with Keyes. No further substantive policy or political discussions occurred during this brief exchange.","topics":["Paul W. Keyes","Logistics","White House communications","Telephone request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:02:46.187Z"},"topicSlugs":["paul-w-keyes","logistics","white-house-communications","telephone-request"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-061.mp3","bytes":174288,"durationSec":7.2,"bitrate":193689,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-061.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-061","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-061","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}