{"conversationCode":"021-008","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-008","startDateTime":"1972-03-07T14:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-07T15:57:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Mar-1972","startTime":"9:58 AM","endDate":"7-Mar-1972","endTime":"10:57 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:58 am and 10:57 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-008 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 21-8\n\nDate: March 7, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:57 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Timothy G. Elbourne\n\n[See Conversation No. 679-7]","filename":["021-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:34:39","tapeEnd":"00:34:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-007","nextCode":"021-009","transcript":[{"start":1.5,"end":4.58,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.6,"end":5.59,"text":"ML Born, please."},{"start":5.61,"end":7.22,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a personal telephone call to Timothy G. Elbourne. The exchange was strictly logistical, functioning solely to facilitate the connection between the President and the requested party. No further policy or substantive matters were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Communication","Logistics","Timothy G. Elbourne","White House Operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:05:31.712Z"},"topicSlugs":["communication","logistics","timothy-g-elbourne","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-008.mp3","bytes":186199,"durationSec":7.7,"bitrate":193557,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}