{"conversationCode":"023-026","tapeNumber":23,"conversationNumber":26,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-023-026","startDateTime":"1972-04-19T01:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-19T01:18:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Apr-1972","startTime":"8:05 PM","endDate":"18-Apr-1972","endTime":"8:18 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:05 pm and 8:18 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-026 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. 23-26\n\nDate: April 18, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:05 and 8:18 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 332-3]\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["023-026.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"023-025","nextCode":"023-027","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.35,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":2.37,"end":3.88,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical request to establish a line of communication with his primary foreign policy advisor. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication","National security"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:34:00.771Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","national-security"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"023-026.mp3","bytes":107832,"durationSec":4.44,"bitrate":194440,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/023-026.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-026","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/23/conversation-023-026","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}