{"conversationCode":"008-032","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":32,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-032","startDateTime":"1971-09-07T21:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-07T21:09:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Sep-1971","startTime":"5:09 PM","endDate":"7-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 5:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-032 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. 8-32\n\nDate: September 7, 1971\nTime: 5:09 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 275-18]\n\n     Request for call to Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes","filename":["008-032.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:07:46","tapeEnd":"01:07:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"008-031","nextCode":"008-033","transcript":[{"start":0.18,"end":5.8,"text":"Could you get me General Hughes, please?"},{"start":5.84,"end":6.13,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Major General James D. Hughes. This brief administrative interaction served as the initiation of a direct communication line between the President and his military aide. The conversation concluded immediately after the operator acknowledged the request.","topics":["Presidential communications","James D. Hughes","Military aides","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:41:49.776Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communications","james-d-hughes","military-aides","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-032.mp3","bytes":263313,"durationSec":10.91,"bitrate":193127,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.707Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-032.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-032","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-032","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}