{"conversationCode":"008-102","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":102,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-102","startDateTime":"1971-09-12T21:31:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-12T21:33:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Sep-1971","startTime":"5:31 PM","endDate":"12-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:33 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:31 pm and 5:33 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-102 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. 8-102\n\nDate: September 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:31 pm and 5:33 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["008-102.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:43:48","tapeEnd":"04:43:55","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"008-101","nextCode":"008-103","transcript":[{"start":0.18,"end":4.21,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.23,"end":5.01,"text":"Mr. Haldeman, please."},{"start":5.09,"end":5.74,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman through the White House operator. The conversation serves as a logistical request to establish direct communication with Haldeman. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occur during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communications","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:48:07.358Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-102.mp3","bytes":174915,"durationSec":7.22,"bitrate":193875,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-102.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-102","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-102","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}