{"conversationCode":"007-061","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":61,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-061","startDateTime":"1971-08-04T12:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-04T17:56:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Aug-1971","startTime":"8:37 AM","endDate":"4-Aug-1971","endTime":"1:56 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:37 am and 1:56 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-061 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. 7-61\n\nDate: August 4, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:37 am and 1:56 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 554-6A]\n\n     Requested a call to John C. Stennis","filename":["007-061.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:29:43","tapeEnd":"02:29:49","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"007-060","nextCode":"007-062","transcript":[{"start":0.59,"end":2.26,"text":"Stay off of the way."},{"start":2.68,"end":5.01,"text":"Give me Senator Stennis, please."},{"start":5.11,"end":5.87,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an urgent communication with Senator John C. Stennis. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to place a telephone call to the Senator. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["John C. Stennis","White House communications","Logistics","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:29:32.404Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-c-stennis","white-house-communications","logistics","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-061.mp3","bytes":151718,"durationSec":6.26,"bitrate":193943,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.472Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-061.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-061","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-061","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}