{"conversationCode":"010-077","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":77,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-077","startDateTime":"1971-10-06T15:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-06T15:44:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Oct-1971","startTime":"11:39 AM","endDate":"6-Oct-1971","endTime":"11:44 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:39 am and 11:44 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-077 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. 10-77\n\nDate: October 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:39 am and 11:44 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to William L. Safire","filename":["010-077.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:35:59","tapeEnd":"02:36:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"010-076","nextCode":"010-078","transcript":[{"start":3.39,"end":6.36,"text":"Sapphire, please Thank you"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to speechwriter William L. Safire. The primary purpose of this communication was to establish contact with Safire for further discussion. No substantive policy matters or additional instructions were recorded during this brief administrative request.","topics":["White House operator","William L. Safire","administrative communication","presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:09:29.960Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","william-l-safire","administrative-communication","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-077.mp3","bytes":190588,"durationSec":7.88,"bitrate":193548,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.709Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-077.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-077","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-077","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}