{"conversationCode":"009-121","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":121,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-121","startDateTime":"1971-09-22T20:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-22T21:17:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Sep-1971","startTime":"4:54 PM","endDate":"22-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:17 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-121 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. 9-121\n\nDate: September 22, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 279-28]\n\n     Request for call to George P. Shultz","filename":["009-121.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:37:12","tapeEnd":"03:37:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"009-120","nextCode":"009-122","transcript":[{"start":0.23,"end":4.63,"text":"Yes please."},{"start":4.79,"end":6.28,"text":"Thank you Mr. Press."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to George P. Shultz. The brief exchange served as a logistical coordination to facilitate direct communication between the President and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. No policy discussions took place during this administrative request.","topics":["George P. Shultz","White House operations","telecommunications","administrative coordination","Office of Management and Budget"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:00:37.345Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","white-house-operations","telecommunications","administrative-coordination","office-of-management-and-budget"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-121.mp3","bytes":156106,"durationSec":6.43,"bitrate":194107,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.709Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-121.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-121","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-121","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}