{"conversationCode":"498-012","tapeNumber":498,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-498-012","startDateTime":"1971-05-13T19:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-13T19:38:00.000Z","startDate":"13-May-1971","startTime":"3:35 PM","endDate":"13-May-1971","endTime":"3:38 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:35 pm and 3:38 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 498-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 498-012\nDate: May 13, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:38 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n[See Conversation No. 3-42]","filename":["498-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:26:45","tapeEnd":"04:27:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"498-011","nextCode":"498-013","transcript":[{"start":4.92,"end":6.11,"text":"Action please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief administrative interaction with the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call. The exchange serves solely as a functional request to connect the President to another party. No substantive policy discussions or decisions are recorded during this brief connectivity process.","topics":["White House operator","Telecommunications","Administrative operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:15:22.692Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","telecommunications","administrative-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"498-012.mp3","bytes":317440,"durationSec":7.79,"bitrate":325983,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.683Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/498-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/498-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/498/conversation-498-012","catalogNaId":417177147,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417177147","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}