{"conversationCode":"004-071","tapeNumber":4,"conversationNumber":71,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-004-071","startDateTime":"1971-06-08T13:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-08T17:45:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Jun-1971","startTime":"9:47 AM","endDate":"8-Jun-1971","endTime":"1:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:47 am and 1:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 004-071 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. 4-71\n\nDate: June 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:47 am and 1:45 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Stephen B. Bull","filename":["004-071.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:48:31","tapeEnd":"02:48:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"004-070","nextCode":"004-072","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":3.9,"text":"Yes please."},{"start":3.92,"end":4.67,"text":"Steamboat please."},{"start":4.73,"end":5.35,"text":"Thank you sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a telephone connection with his aide, Stephen B. Bull. This brief administrative interaction served as a routine communication task to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and a member of his staff. No further substantive discussion or policy matters were addressed during this exchange.","topics":["Stephen B. Bull","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:46:36.809Z"},"topicSlugs":["stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"004-071.mp3","bytes":83533,"durationSec":6.77,"bitrate":98761,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.077Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/004-071.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-071","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/4/conversation-004-071","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}