{"conversationCode":"021-013","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":13,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-013","startDateTime":"1972-03-07T19:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-07T19:26:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Mar-1972","startTime":"2:18 PM","endDate":"7-Mar-1972","endTime":"2:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:18 pm and 2:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-013 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. 21-13\n\nDate: March 7, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:18 pm and 2:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Abraham A. Ribicoff’s location\n         -Rochester, Minnesota\n              -Mayo Clinic\n                    -Ruth Siegel Ribicoff","filename":["021-013.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:38:02","tapeEnd":"00:38:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-012","nextCode":"021-014","transcript":[{"start":4.49,"end":12.56,"text":"Mr. President, Senator Rivikoff is in Rochester, Minnesota at the Mayo Clinic with his wife who is critically ill. Did you want me to reach him there?"},{"start":12.58,"end":13.5,"text":"Yeah, reach him there."},{"start":13.56,"end":14.87,"text":"All right, thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff. The operator informed the President that Ribicoff was currently at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, attending to his critically ill wife. Nixon confirmed his desire to proceed with reaching the Senator despite his location.","topics":["Abraham A. Ribicoff","Mayo Clinic","White House operations","telephone communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:06:01.440Z"},"topicSlugs":["abraham-a-ribicoff","mayo-clinic","white-house-operations","telephone-communication"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-013.mp3","bytes":427571,"durationSec":17.76,"bitrate":192602,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-013.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-013","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-013","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}