{"conversationCode":"013-116","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":116,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-116","startDateTime":"1971-11-04T18:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-04T18:10:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Nov-1971","startTime":"1:05 PM","endDate":"4-Nov-1971","endTime":"1:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:10 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-116 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 013-116\n\nDate: November 4, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:10 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 614-6]\n\n     Request for a call to Robert H. Steele","filename":["013-116.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:58:24","tapeEnd":"03:58:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"013-115","nextCode":"013-117","transcript":[{"start":0.34,"end":12.17,"text":"Congressman Steele of Connecticut."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone call to Representative Robert H. Steele of Connecticut. The conversation served as a routine administrative request to establish a line of communication with the congressman. No substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Robert H. Steele","White House operations","Congressional relations","Telephone communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:52:27.183Z"},"topicSlugs":["robert-h-steele","white-house-operations","congressional-relations","telephone-communications"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-116.mp3","bytes":294033,"durationSec":12.18,"bitrate":193077,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.416Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-116.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-116","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-116","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}