{"conversationCode":"010-045","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":45,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-045","startDateTime":"1971-10-05T20:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-05T21:18:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Oct-1971","startTime":"4:30 PM","endDate":"5-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:18 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 5:18 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-045 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. 10-45\n\nDate: October 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:30 pm and 5:18 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 585-12]\n\n     Request for a call to John B. Connally","filename":["010-045.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:31:43","tapeEnd":"01:31:50","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"010-044","nextCode":"010-046","transcript":[{"start":1.06,"end":2.69,"text":"Please."},{"start":2.71,"end":5.13,"text":"Secretary Connolly, please."},{"start":5.16,"end":6.24,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief telephone communication through the White House operator to contact Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally. The interaction served solely as a procedural request to establish a connection with the Secretary. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["John B. Connally","Presidential communications","White House operations","Treasury Department"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:06:44.071Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-b-connally","presidential-communications","white-house-operations","treasury-department"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-045.mp3","bytes":170526,"durationSec":7.05,"bitrate":193613,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.709Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-045.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-045","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-045","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}