{"conversationCode":"291-021","tapeNumber":291,"conversationNumber":21,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-291-021","startDateTime":"1971-10-18T21:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-18T21:54:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:45 PM","endDate":"18-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:54 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 18, 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 5:45 pm and 5:54 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 291-021 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. 291-21\n\nDate: October 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:45 pm and 5:54 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 11-121]","filename":["291-021.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:58:57","tapeEnd":"01:59:37","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"291-020","nextCode":"291-022","transcript":[{"start":3.93,"end":4.47,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":8.53,"end":10.11,"text":"Sure."},{"start":10.19,"end":10.31,"text":"Hi."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon communicated briefly with a White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call. The exchange served exclusively as a procedural interaction to connect the President to another party. No substantive policy discussions or decision-making processes occurred during this brief connection.","topics":["White House operations","Telecommunications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:40:26.232Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","telecommunications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"291-021.mp3","bytes":500297,"durationSec":12.36,"bitrate":323725,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.615Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/291-021.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/291-021","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/291/conversation-291-021","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}