{"conversationCode":"009-064","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":64,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-064","startDateTime":"1971-09-17T20:32:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-17T23:48:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Sep-1971","startTime":"4:32 PM","endDate":"17-Sep-1971","endTime":"7:48 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 4:32 pm and 7:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-064 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. 9-64\n\nDate: September 17, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:32 pm and 7:48 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to Ronald L. Ziegler","filename":["009-064.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:04:21","tapeEnd":"02:04:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"009-063","nextCode":"009-065","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.46,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":3.48,"end":4.18,"text":"Regular please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a routine telephone call to Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief interaction served exclusively as a connection request for administrative communication between the President and his press staff. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this brief exchange.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","White House operator","administrative communication","telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:55:28.703Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-operator","administrative-communication","telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-064.mp3","bytes":139179,"durationSec":5.74,"bitrate":193983,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-064.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-064","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-064","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}