{"conversationCode":"249-011","tapeNumber":249,"conversationNumber":11,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-249-011","startDateTime":"1971-04-15T20:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-15T20:44:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Apr-1971","startTime":"3:16 PM","endDate":"15-Apr-1971","endTime":"3:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and 3:44 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 249-011 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 249-11\n\nDate: April 15, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:16 pm and 3:44 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n[See Conversation No. 42-44]","filename":["249-011.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:00:07","tapeEnd":"02:00:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"249-010","nextCode":"249-012","transcript":[{"start":0.27,"end":0.52,"text":"Please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief communication through the White House operator to facilitate a connection to another party. This interaction serves as a routine administrative step to bridge the President to an external call. No substantive policy discussions or decisions are recorded in this brief exchange.","topics":["White House communications","administrative logistics","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:39:01.606Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","administrative-logistics","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"249-011.mp3","bytes":139695,"durationSec":3.35,"bitrate":333509,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/249-011.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/249-011","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/249/conversation-249-011","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}