{"conversationCode":"007-049","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":49,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-049","startDateTime":"1971-08-02T16:21:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-02T16:56:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Aug-1971","startTime":"12:21 PM","endDate":"2-Aug-1971","endTime":"12:56 PM","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 12:21 pm and 12:56 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-049 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. 7-49\n\nDate: August 2, 1971\n\nTime: Unknown between 12:21 pm and 12:56 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 553-6H]\n\n     Requested a call to George D. Aiken","filename":["007-049.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:16:52","tapeEnd":"02:17:04","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"007-048","nextCode":"007-050","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":8.65,"text":"Senator Aiken, please."},{"start":8.68,"end":10.48,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to Senator George Aiken. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and the Senator. No further substantive discussion occurred during this recording.","topics":["Presidential communications","George Aiken","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:28:27.379Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communications","george-aiken","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-049.mp3","bytes":262059,"durationSec":10.85,"bitrate":193149,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.707Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:34.858Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-049.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-049","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-049","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}