{"conversationCode":"008-071","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":71,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-071","startDateTime":"1971-09-09T18:03:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-09T18:05:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Sep-1971","startTime":"2:03 PM","endDate":"9-Sep-1971","endTime":"2:05 PM","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 2:03 pm and 2:05 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-071 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. 8-71\n\nDate: September 9, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:03 pm and 2:05 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 278-12]\n\n     Requested a call to Clark MacGregor","filename":["008-071.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:39:18","tapeEnd":"02:39:26","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"008-070","nextCode":"008-072","transcript":[{"start":4.12,"end":5.45,"text":"McGregor."},{"start":5.47,"end":7.12,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to Clark MacGregor, who served as the White House Director of Congressional Relations. This brief exchange served exclusively as an administrative request to connect the President with his liaison for legislative affairs. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this specific interaction.","topics":["Clark MacGregor","White House operations","Congressional relations","telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:45:20.443Z"},"topicSlugs":["clark-macgregor","white-house-operations","congressional-relations","telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-071.mp3","bytes":196857,"durationSec":8.14,"bitrate":193476,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-071.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-071","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-071","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}