{"conversationCode":"018-099","tapeNumber":18,"conversationNumber":99,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-018-099","startDateTime":"1972-01-18T15:23:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-18T15:55:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Jan-1972","startTime":"10:23 AM","endDate":"18-Jan-1972","endTime":"10:55 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:23 am and 10:55 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-099 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. 18-99\n\nDate: January 18, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:23 am and 10:55 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 650-6A]\n\n     Request for a call to William L. Safire","filename":["018-099.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:53:45","tapeEnd":"04:53:51","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"018-098","nextCode":"018-100","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.05,"text":"Just a second."},{"start":3.13,"end":3.98,"text":"Sound fire?"},{"start":4.04,"end":5.03,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a telephone call through the White House operator to contact speechwriter William L. Safire. The conversation served as a brief administrative interaction to facilitate this connection. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["William Safire","White House communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:33:40.283Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-safire","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"018-099.mp3","bytes":128521,"durationSec":5.29,"bitrate":194429,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/018-099.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-099","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/18/conversation-018-099","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}