{"conversationCode":"010-048","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":48,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-048","startDateTime":"1971-10-05T21:21:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-05T21:29:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:21 PM","endDate":"5-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:29 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 5:21 pm and 5:29 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-048 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. 10-48\n\nDate: October 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:21 pm and 5:29 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 585-15B]\n\n     Request for a call to Richard H. Poff","filename":["010-048.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:32:44","tapeEnd":"01:32:51","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"010-047","nextCode":"010-049","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":4.79,"text":"Congressman Poff, please."},{"start":5.27,"end":6.63,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request through the White House operator to place a telephone call to Congressman Richard H. Poff. This brief administrative exchange serves to facilitate direct communication between the President and the Congressman. No substantive policy discussions occur during this brief operator-assisted connection.","topics":["Richard H. Poff","White House operations","telecommunications","presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:07:00.450Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-h-poff","white-house-operations","telecommunications","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-048.mp3","bytes":166137,"durationSec":6.86,"bitrate":193816,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.709Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-048.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-048","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-048","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}