{"conversationCode":"007-069","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":69,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-069","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 007-069 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. 7-69\n\nDate: August 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 556-17]\n\n     Marvin L. Esch's location\n\n     Request to talk with Esch's secretary, Linda Davis","filename":["007-069.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:33:12","tapeEnd":"02:33:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"007-068","nextCode":"007-070","transcript":[{"start":0.15,"end":5.48,"text":"Secretary Connolly, this is Haldeman."},{"start":5.5,"end":28.89,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":29.77,"end":34.99,"text":"He's down on the second floor."},{"start":35.03,"end":38.02,"text":"They're giving me a number, Mr. Hoffman."},{"start":38.04,"end":38.24,"text":"Okay."},{"start":117.62,"end":142.65,"text":"They're having difficulty getting the number where he is, Mr. Haldeman."},{"start":143.05,"end":145.75,"text":"Can they send someone to get him?"},{"start":148.16,"end":152.07,"text":"Well, yeah, and yeah, that'd be fine."},{"start":152.21,"end":152.43,"text":"All right."},{"start":152.49,"end":155.35,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":155.37,"end":158.46,"text":"Mr. President, Congressman Marvin Esch is in Nairobi, Kenya."},{"start":158.48,"end":160.14,"text":"He'll be back at the end of the month."},{"start":160.16,"end":163.27,"text":"Yeah, get me his secretary, please."},{"start":163.29,"end":164.97,"text":"Sure, he will."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon sought to contact Congressman Marvin L. Esch, who was currently traveling in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of an Education and Labor Committee trip. After determining that the Congressman was unavailable until the end of the month, the President instructed the White House operator to connect him with Esch’s secretary, Linda Davis. The communication facilitated a follow-up call regarding the Congressman's schedule and the delivery of birthday greetings to Clark MacGregor.","topics":["Marvin L. Esch","White House operations","Scheduling","Clark MacGregor","Congressional travel"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:30:15.483Z"},"topicSlugs":["marvin-l-esch","white-house-operations","scheduling","clark-macgregor","congressional-travel"],"audioDurationSec":165,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-069.mp3","bytes":3965386,"durationSec":165.16,"bitrate":192076,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.707Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:34.861Z","transcriptGapSeconds":48,"transcriptGapShare":0.29,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-069.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-069","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-069","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}