{"conversationCode":"287-024","tapeNumber":287,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-287-024","startDateTime":"1971-10-11T21:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-11T21:56:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:50 PM","endDate":"11-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:56 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 11, 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 5:50 pm and 5:56 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 287-024 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. 287-24\n\nDate: October 11, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:50 pm and 5:56 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 11-44]\n\n     Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["287-024.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:52:42","tapeEnd":"02:52:44","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"287-023","nextCode":"287-025","transcript":[{"start":4.88,"end":5.68,"text":"Miss the next one, please."},{"start":11.36,"end":12.14,"text":"You got back, huh?"},{"start":12.66,"end":18.42,"text":"Fine, well, I... Only about the last inning, I guess, was a real, a real rattle."},{"start":19.56,"end":22.18,"text":"Yeah, yeah."},{"start":22.3,"end":22.91,"text":"Did you?"},{"start":22.95,"end":23.89,"text":"Oh, great, yeah."},{"start":24.81,"end":25.55,"text":"Who'd you throw it to?"},{"start":25.57,"end":26.29,"text":"Who'd you throw it to?"},{"start":26.39,"end":27.15,"text":"Just to catch it?"},{"start":27.55,"end":27.83,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":28.73,"end":30.07,"text":"But did you get a nice reception?"},{"start":31.51,"end":31.73,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":32.01,"end":34.15,"text":"You were a friend of him, huh?"},{"start":34.17,"end":34.67,"text":"Of who?"},{"start":37.38,"end":37.82,"text":"That's good."},{"start":38.22,"end":42.75,"text":"Are they ready for dinner now or are they going to go home?"},{"start":42.77,"end":44.92,"text":"Good to hear it."},{"start":44.96,"end":45.1,"text":"Fine."},{"start":45.14,"end":47.93,"text":"Well, I will start over right now."},{"start":47.99,"end":49.43,"text":"We went there at 625."},{"start":49.47,"end":49.67,"text":"Bye."},{"start":49.73,"end":49.97,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon interacts with a White House operator to facilitate a telephone call to First Lady Pat Nixon. The brief exchange includes informal pleasantries regarding a baseball game and the First Lady's recent public appearance. The primary action item concludes with the operator assisting the President in connecting to his wife.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communications","Personal correspondence"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:33:25.587Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","personal-correspondence"],"audioDurationSec":53,"audioFiles":[{"file":"287-024.mp3","bytes":2128248,"durationSec":53.08,"bitrate":320790,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.615Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/287-024.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/287-024","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/287/conversation-287-024","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}