{"conversationCode":"397-012","tapeNumber":397,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-397-012","startDateTime":"1973-01-19T16:53:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-19T16:56:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Jan-1973","startTime":"11:53 AM","endDate":"19-Jan-1973","endTime":"11:56 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 19, 1973, 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 11:53 am and 11:56 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 397-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 397-12\n\nDate: January 19, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 11:53 am and 11:56 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\f                                             -14-\n\n                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                         Conversation No. 397-12 (cont’d)\n\n[See Conversation No. 36-5]","filename":["397-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"397-011","nextCode":"397-013","transcript":[{"start":4.4,"end":5.5,"text":"Teksting av Nicolai Winther"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing telephone connection. The brief interaction served purely administrative purposes to establish a line for the President. No substantive policy discussions or significant decisions were recorded during this brief exchange.","topics":["White House communications","telephony","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:09:07.059Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","telephony","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"397-012.mp3","bytes":230101,"durationSec":9.45,"bitrate":194725,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.438Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:33.266Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/397-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/397-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/397/conversation-397-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}