{"conversationCode":"007-068","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":68,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-068","startDateTime":"1971-08-06T16:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-06T16:20:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Aug-1971","startTime":"12:17 PM","endDate":"6-Aug-1971","endTime":"12:20 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-068 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. 7-68\n\nDate: August 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See conversation No. 556-16]\n\n     Requested a call to Orval H. Hansen","filename":["007-068.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:33:04","tapeEnd":"02:33:12","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"007-067","nextCode":"007-069","transcript":[{"start":0.12,"end":5.83,"text":"Congressman Orville Hanson, please."},{"start":6.84,"end":7.14,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Congressman Orval H. Hansen. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical request to facilitate direct communication between the President and the legislator. No substantive political or policy discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Orval H. Hansen","White House operations","Presidential communication","Congressional relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:30:10.185Z"},"topicSlugs":["orval-h-hansen","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","congressional-relations"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-068.mp3","bytes":179930,"durationSec":7.43,"bitrate":193690,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.471Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-068.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-068","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-068","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}