{"conversationCode":"018-063","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":63,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-063","startDateTime":"1972-01-11T17:21:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-11T17:29:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Jan-1972","startTime":"12:21 PM","endDate":"11-Jan-1972","endTime":"12:29 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:21 pm and 12:29 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-063 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. 18-63\n\nDate: January 11, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:21 pm and 12:29 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation no. 312-20]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["018-063.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:47:24","tapeEnd":"02:47:30","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-062","nextCode":"018-064","transcript":[{"start":1.99,"end":2.73,"text":"Yes please."},{"start":2.77,"end":3.51,"text":"Closen please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to connect with Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. The exchange serves solely as a logistical request to establish communication with a key staff member. No substantive policy discussions or decisions are recorded during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Administrative request","Communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:02:57.459Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","administrative-request","communication"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-063.mp3","bytes":126640,"durationSec":5.2,"bitrate":194868,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-063.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-063","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-063","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}