{"conversationCode":"003-008","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-008","startDateTime":"1971-05-12T14:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-12T14:25:00.000Z","startDate":"12-May-1971","startTime":"10:12 AM","endDate":"12-May-1971","endTime":"10:25 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:12 am and 10:25 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-008 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. 003-008\n\nDate: May 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:25 am\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to William P. Rogers","filename":["003-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:08:13","tapeEnd":"00:08:17","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-007","nextCode":"003-009","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.53,"text":"Secretary Rogers please."},{"start":1.74,"end":2.85,"text":"Thank you sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to connect him with Secretary of State William P. Rogers. This brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to initiate a telephone communication with a key cabinet member. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["William P. Rogers","White House operations","Presidential communication","State Department"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:21:20.780Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","state-department"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-008.mp3","bytes":36864,"durationSec":2.83,"bitrate":104144,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.570Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.591Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}