{"conversationCode":"008-116","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":116,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-116","startDateTime":"1971-09-13T23:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-13T23:51:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Sep-1971","startTime":"7:47 PM","endDate":"13-Sep-1971","endTime":"7:51 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:47 pm and 7:51 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-116 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. 8-116\n\nDate: September 13, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:47 pm and 7:51 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to Rose Mary Woods","filename":["008-116.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:28:45","tapeEnd":"05:28:51","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"008-115","nextCode":"008-117","transcript":[{"start":2.5,"end":3.39,"text":"Thanks, words please."},{"start":3.53,"end":4.29,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a personal telephone call. The sole purpose of this brief communication was to request that the operator connect him with his longtime personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. No other policy matters or substantive political topics were discussed during this exchange.","topics":["Rose Mary Woods","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:49:22.276Z"},"topicSlugs":["rose-mary-woods","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-116.mp3","bytes":148583,"durationSec":6.12,"bitrate":194089,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-116.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-116","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-116","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}