{"conversationCode":"007-041","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":41,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-041","startDateTime":"1971-08-02T12:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-02T13:42:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Aug-1971","startTime":"8:52 AM","endDate":"2-Aug-1971","endTime":"9:42 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:52 am and 9:42 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-041 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. 7-41\n\nDate: August 2, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:42 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 553-3A]\n\n     Requested a call to George P. Shultz","filename":["007-041.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:03:25","tapeEnd":"02:03:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"007-040","nextCode":"007-042","transcript":[{"start":0.55,"end":7.4,"text":"George Shultz, please."},{"start":7.42,"end":8.07,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with George P. Shultz. This brief administrative interaction served as the necessary logistical step to initiate a direct conversation between the President and his Director of the Office of Management and Budget. No policy discussions occurred during this exchange, as its sole purpose was to establish the call.","topics":["George P. Shultz","White House operations","telecommunications","administrative task"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:27:45.154Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","white-house-operations","telecommunications","administrative-task"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-041.mp3","bytes":212531,"durationSec":8.8,"bitrate":193195,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.472Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-041.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-041","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-041","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}