{"conversationCode":"014-056","tapeNumber":14,"conversationNumber":56,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-014-056","startDateTime":"1971-11-11T22:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-11T23:11:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Nov-1971","startTime":"5:50 PM","endDate":"11-Nov-1971","endTime":"6:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 014-056 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. 14-56\n\nDate: November 11, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 298-41]\n\n     Request for a call to William L. Safire","filename":["014-056.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:46:11","tapeEnd":"01:46:19","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"014-055","nextCode":"014-057","transcript":[{"start":5.84,"end":6.61,"text":"Yes please."},{"start":6.63,"end":7.18,"text":"Sapphire please."},{"start":7.3,"end":8.35,"text":"Thank you sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to speechwriter William L. Safire. The exchange served as a logistical request to initiate contact with a key member of his staff. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["William L. Safire","White House communications","speechwriting","presidential logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:01:22.846Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-l-safire","white-house-communications","speechwriting","presidential-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"014-056.mp3","bytes":319896,"durationSec":9.88,"bitrate":258904,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.322Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/014-056.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/014-056","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/14/conversation-014-056","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}