{"conversationCode":"009-051","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":51,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-051","startDateTime":"1971-09-17T01:13:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-17T01:17:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Sep-1971","startTime":"9:13 PM","endDate":"16-Sep-1971","endTime":"9:17 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:13 pm and 9:17 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-051 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. 9-51\n\nDate: September 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:13 pm and 9:17 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator..\n\n     Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["009-051.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:40:40","tapeEnd":"01:40:48","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"009-050","nextCode":"009-052","transcript":[{"start":4.84,"end":5.46,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":5.49,"end":5.92,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. The brief interaction served exclusively as a procedural request to initiate this official communication. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:54:18.398Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-051.mp3","bytes":174288,"durationSec":7.19,"bitrate":193823,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-051.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-051","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-051","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}