{"conversationCode":"005-161","tapeNumber":5,"conversationNumber":161,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-005-161","startDateTime":"1971-06-27T23:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-27T23:44:00.000Z","startDate":"27-Jun-1971","startTime":"7:11 PM","endDate":"27-Jun-1971","endTime":"7:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:11 pm and 7:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 005-161 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. 5-161\n\nDate: June 27, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:11 pm and 7:44 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Henry A. Kissinger's schedule\n         -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["005-161.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:52:08","tapeEnd":"04:52:17","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"005-160","nextCode":"005-162","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":10.9,"text":"Is Dr. Kissinger back yet?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to inquire about the arrival status of National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. The primary purpose of the brief inquiry was to confirm whether Kissinger had returned from his travels, which involved Alexander M. Haig, Jr. No substantive policy decisions were made during this logistical check-in.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","Alexander Haig","White House logistics","Presidential schedule"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:04:48.315Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","alexander-haig","white-house-logistics","presidential-schedule"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"005-161.mp3","bytes":158089,"durationSec":10.86,"bitrate":116456,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.077Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/005-161.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/005-161","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/5/conversation-005-161","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}