{"conversationCode":"008-060","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":60,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-060","startDateTime":"1971-09-09T13:04:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-09T14:11:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Sep-1971","startTime":"9:04 AM","endDate":"9-Sep-1971","endTime":"10:11 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:04 am and 10:11 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-060 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. 8-60\n\nDate: September 9, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:04 am and 10:11 am\n\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to Alexander P. Butterfield","filename":["008-060.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:49:23","tapeEnd":"01:49:30","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"008-059","nextCode":"008-061","transcript":[{"start":4.01,"end":7.49,"text":"Butterfield, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call to the White House operator to facilitate communication with his Deputy Assistant, Alexander P. Butterfield. The call serves solely as a logistical request to establish a connection with Butterfield. No further substantive policy matters or decisions are discussed in this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["Alexander P. Butterfield","White House operations","Communication logistics","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:44:19.778Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-p-butterfield","white-house-operations","communication-logistics","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-060.mp3","bytes":180557,"durationSec":7.46,"bitrate":193536,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-060.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-060","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-060","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}