{"conversationCode":"045-012","tapeNumber":45,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-045-012","startDateTime":"1973-04-26T21:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-04-26T22:53:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Apr-1973","startTime":"4:51 PM","endDate":"26-Apr-1973","endTime":"5:53 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:51 pm and 5:53 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-012 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. 45-12\n\nDate: April 26, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 4:51 pm and 5:53 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 431-9D]\n\n     Request for telephone call\n          -Richard G. Kleindienst\n\f                                              -9-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["045-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"045-011","nextCode":"045-013","transcript":[{"start":2.88,"end":8.01,"text":"Very safe."},{"start":8.99,"end":10.6,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to initiate this specific high-level communication. No substantive policy matters or further developments were addressed during this brief call-routing process.","topics":["Richard G. Kleindienst","Telephone communication","White House operations","Administrative requests"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T07:01:05.312Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-g-kleindienst","telephone-communication","white-house-operations","administrative-requests"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"045-012.mp3","bytes":495616,"durationSec":15.4,"bitrate":257462,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.712Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.614Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/045-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/45/conversation-045-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}