{"conversationCode":"007-117","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":117,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-117","startDateTime":"1971-08-15T20:53:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-16T01:30:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Aug-1971","startTime":"4:53 PM","endDate":"15-Aug-1971","endTime":"9:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:53 pm and 9:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-117 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. 7-117\n\nDate: August 15, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:53 pm and 9:30 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Requested a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["007-117.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:12:53","tapeEnd":"04:13:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"007-116","nextCode":"007-118","transcript":[{"start":1.16,"end":3.64,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":3.66,"end":4.76,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief exchange with the White House operator to facilitate communication with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. The primary purpose of this call was to request that the operator place a follow-up call to connect him with Haldeman. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House communications","Presidential scheduling","administrative procedures"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:34:32.051Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling","administrative-procedures"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-117.mp3","bytes":114728,"durationSec":4.72,"bitrate":194501,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.471Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-117.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-117","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-117","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}