{"conversationCode":"020-013","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":13,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-013","startDateTime":"1972-02-01T01:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-01T01:04:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Jan-1972","startTime":"8:00 PM","endDate":"31-Jan-1972","endTime":"8:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On January 31, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 8:00 pm to 8:04 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-013 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. 20-13\n\nDate: January 31, 1972\nTime: 8:00 pm - 8:04 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Status of call to Rose Mary Woods\n\nThe President talked with Woods.\n\n     Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]\n           -Attendance\n                 -Rita Rajnich De Fantis\n                       -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n                       -Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon","filename":["020-013.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:14:55","tapeEnd":"00:16:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"020-012","nextCode":"020-014","transcript":[{"start":2.41,"end":5.19,"text":"Oh."},{"start":5.21,"end":5.49,"text":"Fine."},{"start":7.21,"end":7.53,"text":"OK."},{"start":43.5,"end":43.84,"text":"Hello."},{"start":44.26,"end":44.6,"text":"Hi, Rose."},{"start":44.84,"end":45.18,"text":"Hi."},{"start":45.2,"end":54.8,"text":"I want to tell you that the, I think that it's very important that we work this out so that Rita can go along."},{"start":55.46,"end":66.67,"text":"And so the thing to do is to talk to Harlem in the morning with regard to the fact that she should go and we'll just have to find one spot and not to, you know, he can find it."},{"start":72.17,"end":74.8,"text":"to move and put her in the place."},{"start":74.82,"end":79.74,"text":"Because they can't add one more, you don't think?"},{"start":79.88,"end":81.18,"text":"Well, you could try that too."},{"start":81.2,"end":94.84,"text":"Try to add one, but we've got to have her because this is the first time we really have Pat agreeing to do this, which she's got to do from now on because it's good for her to go and be taken care of properly."},{"start":94.86,"end":97.85,"text":"It's very important."},{"start":99.93,"end":100.25,"text":"Don't you agree?"},{"start":100.27,"end":100.53,"text":"That's right."},{"start":100.55,"end":101.89,"text":"So you just say that we have one to add or"},{"start":102.46,"end":104.47,"text":"the abstract one."},{"start":104.49,"end":104.79,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":105.33,"end":105.67,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":105.69,"end":105.9,"text":"Okay."},{"start":105.92,"end":108.39,"text":"I'll talk to him in the morning."},{"start":108.51,"end":108.89,"text":"All right."},{"start":108.91,"end":109.13,"text":"Fine, Rosa."},{"start":109.15,"end":109.25,"text":"Okay."},{"start":109.27,"end":109.35,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to secure a spot for Rita Rajnich De Fantis on the upcoming presidential trip to the People’s Republic of China. Emphasizing that it is essential for First Lady Pat Nixon to have proper assistance on the trip, the President instructs Woods to coordinate with H. R. Haldeman to either add an extra position or reallocate an existing one. Woods agrees to discuss the logistical arrangements with Haldeman the following morning.","topics":["People's Republic of China","Pat Nixon","H. R. Haldeman","Rose Mary Woods","Trip logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:52:52.817Z"},"topicSlugs":["peoples-republic-of-china","pat-nixon","h-r-haldeman","rose-mary-woods","trip-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":111,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-013.mp3","bytes":2672012,"durationSec":111.27,"bitrate":192118,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-013.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-013","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-013","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}