{"conversationCode":"019-097","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":97,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-097","startDateTime":"1972-01-26T17:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-26T17:11:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Jan-1972","startTime":"12:11 PM","endDate":"26-Jan-1972","endTime":"12:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 12:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-097 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. 19-97\n\nDate: January 26, 1972\nTime: 12:11 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 656-13A]\n\n     Request for a call to Ronald W. Reagan","filename":["019-097.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"019-096","nextCode":"019-098","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.84,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":2.88,"end":4.05,"text":"Governor Reagan, please."},{"start":4.23,"end":5.4,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed the White House operator to place a telephone call to California Governor Ronald Reagan. This brief administrative interaction served as the initiation of a direct communication line between the President and the Governor. No further substantive discussion took place during this specific segment of the recording.","topics":["Ronald Reagan","Presidential communications","White House operations","Executive branch coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:43:56.136Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-reagan","presidential-communication","white-house-operations","executive-branch-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-097.mp3","bytes":130402,"durationSec":5.36,"bitrate":194628,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-097.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-097","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/019/conversation-019-097","catalogNaId":417192513,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417192513","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}