{"conversationCode":"009-020","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-020","startDateTime":"1971-09-15T16:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-15T16:37:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Sep-1971","startTime":"12:25 PM","endDate":"15-Sep-1971","endTime":"12:37 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 12:25 pm and 12:37 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-020 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. 9-20\n\nDate: September 15, 1971\n\nTime: Unknown between 12:25 pm and 12:37 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":["009-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:35:06","tapeEnd":"00:35:13","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"009-019","nextCode":"009-021","transcript":[{"start":2.43,"end":3.29,"text":"To Hague, please."},{"start":4.02,"end":4.65,"text":"Al Hague."},{"start":4.67,"end":5.54,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone exchange with the White House operator to request a direct connection to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The communication serves as a routine administrative step to facilitate a conversation between the President and his Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs. No further substantive discussion occurs during this interaction.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","Presidential communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:51:30.873Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","presidential-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-020.mp3","bytes":166764,"durationSec":6.89,"bitrate":193713,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}