{"conversationCode":"008-023","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":23,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-023","startDateTime":"1971-08-17T01:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-17T01:54:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Aug-1971","startTime":"9:42 PM","endDate":"16-Aug-1971","endTime":"9:54 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 9:42 pm and 9:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-023 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. 8-23\n\nDate: August 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:42 pm and 9:54 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to John D. Ehrlichman","filename":["008-023.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:35:38","tapeEnd":"00:35:44","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"008-022","nextCode":"008-024","transcript":[{"start":3.37,"end":3.9,"text":"Really?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to domestic policy advisor John D. Ehrlichman. The brief exchange served as a procedural request to initiate communication with Ehrlichman. No further policy or strategic details were addressed during this short connection.","topics":["John D. Ehrlichman","White House operations","Communication logistics","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:41:01.461Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-d-ehrlichman","white-house-operations","communication-logistics","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-023.mp3","bytes":157360,"durationSec":6.5,"bitrate":193792,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-023.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-023","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-023","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}