{"conversationCode":"417-008","tapeNumber":417,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-417-008","startDateTime":"1973-03-05T20:33:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-05T20:33:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Mar-1973","startTime":"3:33 PM","endDate":"5-Mar-1973","endTime":"3:33 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 3:33 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 417-008 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 417-8\n\nDate: March 5, 1973\nTime: 3:33 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 37-56]","filename":["417-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"417-007","nextCode":"417-009","transcript":[{"start":0.35,"end":0.74,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief administrative interaction with the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection. This exchange served solely as a functional step to initiate a subsequent conversation with another party. No substantive policy discussions or executive decisions occurred during this brief request for operator assistance.","topics":["White House operator","Telecommunications","Administrative procedures","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:59:51.404Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","telecommunications","administrative-procedures","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"417-008.mp3","bytes":49152,"durationSec":10.32,"bitrate":38102,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:46.739Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/417-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/417-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/417/conversation-417-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}