{"conversationCode":"008-034","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":34,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-034","startDateTime":"1971-09-07T21:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-07T21:12:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Sep-1971","startTime":"5:11 PM","endDate":"7-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:12 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Albertazzie, Ralph D.;","description":"On September 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Ralph D. Albertazzie talked on the telephone from 5:11 pm to 5:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-034 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. 8-34\n\nDate: September 7, 1971\nTime: 5:11 pm - 5:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Lt. Col. Ralph D. Albertazzi.\n\n[See Conversation No. 275-20]\n\n     Washington to Anchorage flight time\n         -7 hours, 10 minutes\n         -Anchorage to Washington\n              -6 hours, 30 minutes","filename":["008-034.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:08:12","tapeEnd":"01:08:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Albertazzie, Ralph D."],"prevCode":"008-033","nextCode":"008-035","transcript":[{"start":1.42,"end":1.82,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.96,"end":3.76,"text":"I have Colonel Apertasia."},{"start":3.78,"end":4.04,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":4.38,"end":4.68,"text":"Hello."},{"start":4.88,"end":5.24,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":5.5,"end":9.75,"text":"Say, what is the flight time to Anchorage if you came from Washington?"},{"start":10.03,"end":13.09,"text":"From Washington to Anchorage, Mr. President, 7 hours and 10 minutes."},{"start":13.73,"end":18.02,"text":"Yeah, and... And the other way, it's 6 hours and 30 minutes, coming back from Anchorage to here."},{"start":18.04,"end":18.86,"text":"7-10."},{"start":19.02,"end":19.88,"text":"Okay."},{"start":19.94,"end":21.48,"text":"7-10 going up, 6-30 coming back."},{"start":21.54,"end":21.96,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":22.04,"end":22.77,"text":"Very good, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted Lt. Col. Ralph D. Albertazzie to clarify the logistical flight times between Washington and Anchorage, Alaska. The conversation focused on establishing precise travel durations for both outbound and return segments of a potential trip. Albertazzie confirmed the flight times as seven hours and ten minutes to Anchorage and six hours and thirty minutes for the return journey.","topics":["Logistics","Air travel","Presidential travel","Anchorage","Aviation"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:42:00.355Z"},"topicSlugs":["logistics","air-travel","presidential-travel","anchorage","aviation"],"audioDurationSec":24,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-034.mp3","bytes":586186,"durationSec":24.37,"bitrate":192416,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-034.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-034","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-034","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}