{"conversationCode":"009-016","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-016","startDateTime":"1971-09-15T16:01:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-15T16:18:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Sep-1971","startTime":"12:01 PM","endDate":"15-Sep-1971","endTime":"12:18 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:01 pm and 12:18 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-016 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. 9-16\n\nDate: September 15, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:01 pm and 12:18 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["009-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:32:24","tapeEnd":"00:32:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"009-015","nextCode":"009-017","transcript":[{"start":4.94,"end":5.61,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":5.67,"end":6.62,"text":"Mr. Haig, please."},{"start":6.91,"end":8.1,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to establish a line of communication with his deputy assistant for national security affairs. No further policy discussions or significant substantive developments occurred during this short interaction.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","White House communications","presidential telecommunications","administrative task"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:51:09.403Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","white-house-communications","presidential-telecommunications","administrative-task"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-016.mp3","bytes":213158,"durationSec":8.81,"bitrate":193575,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}