{"conversationCode":"015-188","tapeNumber":15,"conversationNumber":188,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-015-188","startDateTime":"1971-12-02T12:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-02T13:33:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Dec-1971","startTime":"7:40 AM","endDate":"2-Dec-1971","endTime":"8:33 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:40 am and 8:33 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-188 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. 15-188\n\nDate: December 2, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:40 am and 8:33 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo","filename":["015-188.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:23:55","tapeEnd":"05:24:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"015-187","nextCode":"015-189","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":5.08,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call to his close friend and confidant, Charles G. “Bebe” Rebozo. The brief exchange served strictly as a logistical request for the operator to connect the President to Rebozo. No further substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Bebe Rebozo","White House operations","telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:28:14.544Z"},"topicSlugs":["bebe-rebozo","white-house-operations","telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"015-188.mp3","bytes":122879,"durationSec":5.04,"bitrate":194964,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/015-188.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/015-188","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/15/conversation-015-188","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}