{"conversationCode":"031-139","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":139,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-139","startDateTime":"1972-10-19T14:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-19T14:53:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Oct-1972","startTime":"10:52 AM","endDate":"19-Oct-1972","endTime":"10:53 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;","description":"On October 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 10:52 am to 10:53 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-139 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 31-139\n\nDate: October 19, 1972\nTime: 10:52 am - 10:53 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nAlexander M. Haig, Jr talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 805-3]\n\n        Delivery of report from Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["031-139.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haig, Alexander M., Jr."],"prevCode":"031-138","nextCode":"031-140","transcript":[{"start":1.35,"end":1.67,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.87,"end":3.37,"text":"General Haig, Mr. President."},{"start":3.39,"end":3.65,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":4.4,"end":4.96,"text":"President, sir."},{"start":5.26,"end":5.42,"text":"Hello."},{"start":6.02,"end":6.87,"text":"Hello, Mr. President."},{"start":7.05,"end":7.27,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":7.85,"end":9.39,"text":"I have another report from Henry."},{"start":9.41,"end":10.2,"text":"You want to come in?"},{"start":10.3,"end":11.02,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. contacted President Nixon to notify him that he had received an additional report from National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. Nixon directed Haig to deliver the intelligence in person at the Oval Office. The brief exchange served primarily to facilitate the immediate briefing of the President on ongoing foreign policy matters.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","National Security","Foreign Policy","White House Communications","Alexander Haig"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:58:48.973Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","national-security","foreign-policy","white-house-communications","alexander-haig"],"audioDurationSec":16,"audioFiles":[{"file":"031-139.mp3","bytes":379297,"durationSec":15.73,"bitrate":192862,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.233Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/031-139.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-139","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/31/conversation-031-139","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}