{"conversationCode":"005-009","tapeNumber":5,"conversationNumber":9,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-005-009","startDateTime":"1971-06-11T20:59:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-11T21:16:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Jun-1971","startTime":"4:59 PM","endDate":"11-Jun-1971","endTime":"5:16 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:59 pm and 5:16 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 005-009 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. 5-9\n\nDate: June 11, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:59 pm and 5:16 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["005-009.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:10:18","tapeEnd":"00:10:26","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"005-008","nextCode":"005-010","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.59,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical bridge to facilitate direct communication between the President and his top aide. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:51:04.008Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"005-009.mp3","bytes":86187,"durationSec":7.09,"bitrate":97273,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.078Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/005-009.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/005-009","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/5/conversation-005-009","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}