{"conversationCode":"004-009","tapeNumber":4,"conversationNumber":9,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-004-009","startDateTime":"1971-06-02T01:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-02T01:51:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Jun-1971","startTime":"9:49 PM","endDate":"1-Jun-1971","endTime":"9:51 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 1, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:49 pm and 9:51 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 004-009 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. 4-9\n\nDate: June 1, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:49 pm and 9:51 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["004-009.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:33:31","tapeEnd":"00:33:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"004-008","nextCode":"004-010","transcript":[{"start":3.79,"end":4.75,"text":"Parliament, please."},{"start":4.77,"end":6.24,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a telephone connection with Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical bridge to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and his top aide. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange, as it was strictly for the purpose of placing a call.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:41:00.769Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"004-009.mp3","bytes":124107,"durationSec":8.28,"bitrate":119931,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.077Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/004-009.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-009","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/4/conversation-004-009","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}