{"conversationCode":"278-021","tapeNumber":278,"conversationNumber":21,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-278-021","startDateTime":"1971-09-12T19:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-12T19:51:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Sep-1971","startTime":"3:44 PM","endDate":"12-Sep-1971","endTime":"3:51 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 12, 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 3:44 pm and 3:51 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-021 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. 278-21\n\nDate: September 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:51 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 8-86]","filename":["278-021.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:25:12","tapeEnd":"00:25:22","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"278-020","nextCode":"278-022","transcript":[{"start":0.19,"end":5.18,"text":"Listen, don't get him out of a social event."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator regarding the protocol for placing an outgoing call to an unnamed individual. He explicitly directed the operator not to interrupt the recipient if they were currently attending a social event. This brief exchange served as a procedural directive to ensure presidential communication did not cause undue social disruption.","topics":["Presidential protocol","White House communications","Telephone etiquette","Scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:56:50.370Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-protocol","white-house-communications","telephone-etiquette","scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"278-021.mp3","bytes":228624,"durationSec":5.58,"bitrate":327709,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.329Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/278-021.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-021","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/278/conversation-278-021","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}