{"conversationCode":"010-130","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":130,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-130","startDateTime":"1971-10-07T16:31:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-07T16:48:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Oct-1971","startTime":"12:31 PM","endDate":"7-Oct-1971","endTime":"12:48 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","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 an unknown time between 12:31 pm and 12:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-130 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. 10-130\n\nDate: October 7, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:31 pm and 12:48 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 285-21]\n\n     Request for a call to William L. Safire","filename":["010-130.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:14:11","tapeEnd":"04:14:17","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"010-129","nextCode":"010-131","transcript":[{"start":2.68,"end":3.47,"text":"Please."},{"start":3.83,"end":4.6,"text":"Sapphire, please."},{"start":4.76,"end":5.77,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a telephone call to speechwriter William L. Safire. The conversation was purely procedural, serving as a brief request to facilitate communication between the President and his aide. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["William L. Safire","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:14:19.978Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-l-safire","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-130.mp3","bytes":157360,"durationSec":6.48,"bitrate":194237,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.040Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-130.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-130","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-130","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}