{"conversationCode":"001-054","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":54,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-054","startDateTime":"1971-04-09T13:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-09T15:02:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Apr-1971","startTime":"8:40 AM","endDate":"9-Apr-1971","endTime":"10:02 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:40 am and 10:02 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-054 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 1-54\n\nDate: April 9, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:40 am and 10:02 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["001-054.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:03:37","tapeEnd":"02:03:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-053","nextCode":"001-055","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":0.52,"text":"It is."},{"start":0.56,"end":1.81,"text":"To Hague please, General Hague."},{"start":1.83,"end":2.01,"text":"Yes sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to connect him with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. for a telephone conversation. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical bridge to facilitate direct communication with his aide. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this specific exchange.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","Communication","White House Operations","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:56:30.789Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","communication","white-house-operations","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-054.mp3","bytes":70843,"durationSec":2.86,"bitrate":197989,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-054.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-054","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-054","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}