{"conversationCode":"040-018","tapeNumber":40,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-040-018","startDateTime":"1973-06-12T01:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-12T01:05:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Jun-1973","startTime":"9:00 PM","endDate":"11-Jun-1973","endTime":"9:05 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:00 pm and 9:05 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 040-018 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 40-18\n\nDate: June 11, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 9:00 pm and 9:05 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for telephone call\n          -William F. (“Billy”) Graham","filename":["040-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"040-017","nextCode":"040-019","transcript":[{"start":4.1,"end":4.74,"text":"Operator."},{"start":4.99,"end":6.4,"text":"Try Dr. Billy Graham, please."},{"start":6.58,"end":7.21,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to Reverend Billy Graham. This brief administrative interaction served as the initiation of communication between the President and the prominent evangelist, who frequently served as a spiritual advisor to the administration. No further dialogue was recorded on this segment of the tape.","topics":["Billy Graham","Presidential communication","White House operations","Religion and politics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:57:43.455Z"},"topicSlugs":["billy-graham","presidential-communication","white-house-operations","religion-and-politics"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"040-018.mp3","bytes":493568,"durationSec":15.33,"bitrate":257513,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.071Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/040-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/040-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/40/conversation-040-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}