{"conversationCode":"008-044","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":44,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-044","startDateTime":"1971-09-07T23:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-07T23:13:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Sep-1971","startTime":"7:06 PM","endDate":"7-Sep-1971","endTime":"7:13 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On September 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:06 pm and 7:13 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-044 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. 8-44\n\nDate: September 7, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:06 pm and 7:13 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator: an unknown man can be heard in the\nbackground.\n\n     Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n\n     [Unintelligible]","filename":["008-044.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:33:25","tapeEnd":"01:33:41","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"008-043","nextCode":"008-045","transcript":[{"start":3.22,"end":15.15,"text":"This'll go, don't worry."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief telephone communication through the White House operator to contact H.R. Haldeman. While the primary purpose was to reach his Chief of Staff, the recording captures unintelligible background chatter involving an unidentified individual. No substantive policy discussions or administrative decisions were documented during this short exchange.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:42:53.448Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":17,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-044.mp3","bytes":401239,"durationSec":16.66,"bitrate":192637,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-044.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-044","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-044","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}