{"conversationCode":"008-080","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":80,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-080","startDateTime":"1971-09-09T21:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-09T21:11:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Sep-1971","startTime":"5:08 PM","endDate":"9-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:11 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 5:08 pm and 5:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-080 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. 8-80\n\nDate: September 9, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:08 pm and 5:11 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["008-080.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:56:33","tapeEnd":"02:56:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"008-079","nextCode":"008-081","transcript":[{"start":0.18,"end":7.07,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone call to the First Lady, Thelma C. “Pat” Nixon. This brief interaction served exclusively as a procedural request to establish a connection with his wife. No substantive political or policy matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House communications","First Lady","White House operator"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:46:10.028Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-communications","first-lady","white-house-operator"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-080.mp3","bytes":178676,"durationSec":7.39,"bitrate":193359,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-080.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-080","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-080","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}