{"conversationCode":"009-062","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":62,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-062","startDateTime":"1971-09-17T15:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-17T20:28:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Sep-1971","startTime":"11:45 AM","endDate":"17-Sep-1971","endTime":"4:28 PM","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 11:45 am and 4:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-062 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. 9-62\n\nDate: September 17, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:45 am and 4:28 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 575-4A]\n\n     Request for call to Warren E. Burger","filename":["009-062.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:59:57","tapeEnd":"02:00:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"009-061","nextCode":"009-063","transcript":[{"start":2.39,"end":3.4,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.62,"end":5.91,"text":"Chief Justice knows you're going to not sleep."},{"start":5.95,"end":7.16,"text":"Chief Justice Berger, please."},{"start":7.18,"end":8.08,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. The exchange focused exclusively on establishing this communication channel between the President and the Supreme Court. No further substantive matters were discussed during this brief operational request.","topics":["Warren E. Burger","Supreme Court","White House communications","Executive-Judicial relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:55:17.674Z"},"topicSlugs":["warren-e-burger","supreme-court","white-house-communications","executive-judicial-relations"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-062.mp3","bytes":196230,"durationSec":8.11,"bitrate":193485,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-062.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-062","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-062","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}