{"conversationCode":"011-007","tapeNumber":11,"conversationNumber":7,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-011-007","startDateTime":"1971-10-08T00:24:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-08T00:53:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Oct-1971","startTime":"8:24 PM","endDate":"7-Oct-1971","endTime":"8:53 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 8:24 pm and 8:53 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 011-007 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. 011-007\n\n Date: October 7, 1971\n Time: Unknown between 8:24 pm and 8:53 p.m\n Location: White House Telephone\n\n The President talked with the White House operator.\n\n        Request for call to William L. Safire","filename":["011-007.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:15:12","tapeEnd":"00:15:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"011-006","nextCode":"011-008","transcript":[{"start":2.16,"end":4.24,"text":"Sapphire please."},{"start":6.08,"end":6.36,"text":"Thank you sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to speechwriter William L. Safire. The exchange served exclusively as a procedural request to initiate communication with a member of the President's staff. No further substantive discussion took place during this brief interaction.","topics":["William L. Safire","White House communications","speechwriting","presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:15:56.862Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-l-safire","white-house-communications","speechwriting","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"011-007.mp3","bytes":206209,"durationSec":6.33,"bitrate":260792,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.040Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:35.680Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/011-007.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-007","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/11/conversation-011-007","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}