{"conversationCode":"009-057","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":57,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-057","startDateTime":"1971-09-17T13:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-17T13:17:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Sep-1971","startTime":"9:08 AM","endDate":"17-Sep-1971","endTime":"9:17 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:08 am and 9:17 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-057 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. 9-57\n\nDate: September 17, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:08 am and 9:17 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 574-3A]\n\n     Request for call to Robert T. Stafford","filename":["009-057.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:56:10","tapeEnd":"01:56:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"009-056","nextCode":"009-058","transcript":[{"start":1.63,"end":4.76,"text":"Senator Stafford, the new senator from Vermont, please."},{"start":4.78,"end":5.99,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a call to the White House operator to facilitate communication with newly appointed Senator Robert T. Stafford of Vermont. The conversation serves as a brief administrative request to connect the President with the Senator. No further substantive policy matters were addressed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Robert T. Stafford","Vermont","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:54:50.921Z"},"topicSlugs":["robert-t-stafford","vermont","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-057.mp3","bytes":150464,"durationSec":6.19,"bitrate":194421,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-057.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-057","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-057","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}