{"conversationCode":"008-012","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-012","startDateTime":"1971-08-17T00:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-17T00:59:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Aug-1971","startTime":"8:54 PM","endDate":"16-Aug-1971","endTime":"8:59 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:54 pm and 8:59 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 8-12\n\nDate: August 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:54 pm and 8:59 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to William L. Safire","filename":["008-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:21:07","tapeEnd":"00:21:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"008-011","nextCode":"008-013","transcript":[{"start":0.5,"end":0.72,"text":"Субтитры сделал DimaTorzok"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a follow-up call to speechwriter William L. Safire. The brief interaction served exclusively to facilitate communication with Safire. No further substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["William L. Safire","White House operations","Presidential communication","Speechwriting"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:40:03.132Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-l-safire","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","speechwriting"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-012.mp3","bytes":221308,"durationSec":9.17,"bitrate":193110,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.707Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}