{"conversationCode":"275-018","tapeNumber":275,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-275-018","startDateTime":"1971-09-07T21:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-07T21:09:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Sep-1971","startTime":"5:09 PM","endDate":"7-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 5:09 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 275-018 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 275-018\n\nDate: September 7, 1971\nTime: 5:09 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 8-32]","filename":["275-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:50:05","tapeEnd":"01:50:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"275-017","nextCode":"275-019","transcript":[{"start":1.48,"end":2.06,"text":"Huge place."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, informal exchange with a White House operator while positioned in the Old Executive Office Building. The conversation primarily served to acknowledge the vastness of the office space. No policy decisions or substantive political developments resulted from this brief interaction.","topics":["White House operations","Old Executive Office Building","Presidential routine"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:48:50.762Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","old-executive-office-building","presidential-routine"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"275-018.mp3","bytes":249138,"durationSec":6.1,"bitrate":326494,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.008Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:14.748Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/275-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/275-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/275/conversation-275-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}