{"conversationCode":"018-073","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":73,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-073","startDateTime":"1972-01-13T01:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-13T01:13:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Jan-1972","startTime":"8:11 PM","endDate":"12-Jan-1972","endTime":"8:13 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:11 pm and 8:13 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-073 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. 18-73\n\nDate: January 12, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:11 pm and 8:13 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["018-073.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:03:02","tapeEnd":"03:03:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-072","nextCode":"018-074","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.5,"text":"Call some, please."},{"start":4.04,"end":5.23,"text":"Call some, please."},{"start":5.25,"end":7.24,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served solely as a logistical request to establish this communication line. No substantive policy matters or further instructions were recorded during the interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communication","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:03:52.198Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-073.mp3","bytes":174288,"durationSec":7.2,"bitrate":193690,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-073.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-073","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-073","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}