{"conversationCode":"007-121","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":121,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-121","startDateTime":"1971-08-16T01:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-16T01:46:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Aug-1971","startTime":"9:44 PM","endDate":"15-Aug-1971","endTime":"9:46 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 9:44 pm and 9:46 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-121 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. 7-121\n\nDate: August 15, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:44 pm and 9:46 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Telephone calls\n          -Dwight L. Chapin\n               -William P. Rogers\n\n                -John N. Mitchell\n                -David M. Kennedy\n                -James D. Hodgson\n      Request call to John B. Connally\n\n                                                                   Conversation\n                                                                   Conv. No. 7-161\n                                                                                No.(cont.)\n                                                                                    7-122\n\nDate: August 15, 1971\nTime: 9:46 pm - 9:50 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with John B. Connally.\n\n     Wage-price freeze speech\n         -Connally's reaction\n               -Effectiveness\n               -Paul A. Volcker\n               -Ronald L. Ziegler's office\n                     -Television networks\n                           -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]\n                                -Robert Pierpoint\n                                -Daniel Schorr\n         -International economics\n               -Public understanding\n                     -Press\n                           -Wage-price lead\n         -Connally press conference\n               -The President's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n               -Timing\n               -Wall Street\n         -International monetary factor\n         -Peace\n         -Jobs\n         -Connally's press briefing\n               -Ziegler\n               -Haldeman\n               -Wage-price freeze\n               -International economy\n         -Psychology\n         -Connally's reaction\n\n          -Burden sharing","filename":["007-121.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:25:28","tapeEnd":"04:26:03","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"007-120","nextCode":"007-122","transcript":[{"start":1.58,"end":2.69,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":3.05,"end":22.26,"text":"Mr. President, Mr. Chapin asked me to tell you that Secretary Rogers called the Attorney General, Ambassador Kennedy, and Secretary Hodgkin, and both of you are calling."},{"start":22.28,"end":22.38,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":22.4,"end":23.42,"text":"Well, get me Secretary Connolly first, if you will."},{"start":23.44,"end":23.64,"text":"All right."},{"start":23.66,"end":24.93,"text":"And I'll talk to the others in the order that they have called."},{"start":24.95,"end":25.14,"text":"All right."},{"start":25.16,"end":25.57,"text":"Thank you very much."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to facilitate a series of urgent telephone calls with key cabinet members following a wave of incoming requests. He specifically prioritized a conversation with Treasury Secretary John B. Connally, intending to address other officials in the sequence they had initially reached out. This administrative sequence served as a precursor to high-level discussions regarding the administration's economic agenda.","topics":["John B. Connally","Cabinet coordination","Economic policy","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:34:53.800Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-b-connally","cabinet-coordination","economic-policy","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":32,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-121.mp3","bytes":779284,"durationSec":32.4,"bitrate":192387,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.472Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-121.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-121","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-121","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}