{"conversationCode":"010-128","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":128,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-128","startDateTime":"1971-10-07T16:28:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-07T16:28:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Oct-1971","startTime":"12:28 PM","endDate":"7-Oct-1971","endTime":"12:28 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 12:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-128 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. 10-128\n\nDate: October 7, 1971\nTime: 12:28 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 285-19]\n\n     Request for a call to William L. Safire","filename":["010-128.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:10:56","tapeEnd":"04:12:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"010-127","nextCode":"010-129","transcript":[{"start":2.39,"end":2.68,"text":"please."},{"start":3.04,"end":4.04,"text":"Sapphire, please."},{"start":4.12,"end":4.52,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs the White House operator to place an outgoing call to speechwriter William L. Safire. The brief interaction serves solely as a logistical request to initiate contact with Safire. No further substantive policy discussions occur during this exchange.","topics":["William L. Safire","White House communications","Speechwriting","Presidential logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:14:09.026Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-l-safire","white-house-communications","speechwriting","presidential-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-128.mp3","bytes":216292,"durationSec":8.93,"bitrate":193668,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.040Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-128.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-128","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-128","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}