{"conversationCode":"315-018","tapeNumber":315,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-315-018","startDateTime":"1972-01-17T19:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-17T20:43:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Jan-1972","startTime":"2:34 PM","endDate":"17-Jan-1972","endTime":"3:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:34 pm and 3:43 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 315-018 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 315-18\n\nDate: January 19, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:34 pm and 3:43 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 19-11]","filename":["315-018-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:39:12","tapeEnd":"01:39:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"315-017","nextCode":"315-019","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon, while in his office in the Old Executive Office Building, initiated a call to the White House operator. The primary purpose of this brief interaction was to arrange a callback. Nixon indicated he was in the EOB and ready to receive a call back from the operator.","topics":["White House operator","Presidential office","Callback request","Executive Office Building"],"generatedAt":"2026-10-27T14:58:01.263Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","presidential-office","callback-request","executive-office-building"],"audioDurationSec":38,"audioFiles":[{"file":"315-018-splice.mp3","bytes":607197,"durationSec":38.01,"bitrate":127803,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-10-27T08:05:02.931Z","originalFilename":["315a.mp3","315b.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["315a.mp3"],"cutStart":6051.5,"cutEnd":6089.5,"adjustedStart":6051.5,"adjustedEnd":6089.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"high","splicedAt":"2026-10-27T08:05:02.931Z"},"transcript":[{"start":6055.5,"end":6059.5,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Hello. Yeah. Are you going to call?"},{"start":6070.5,"end":6089.5,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"[unintelligible] I'm at the EOB and I have it here. I'd like to [unintelligible] call you back."}],"transcriptCreatedAt":"2026-10-27T14:44:50.171Z","transcriptModel":"google/gemini-3.8-flash","transcriptSource":"audio-llm","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/315-018-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/315-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/315/conversation-315-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}