{"conversationCode":"016-001","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-001","startDateTime":"1971-12-06T00:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-06T00:31:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Dec-1971","startTime":"7:09 PM","endDate":"5-Dec-1971","endTime":"7:31 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:09 pm and 7:31 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-001 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. 16-1\n\nDate: December 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:09 pm and 7:31 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods","filename":["016-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:02","tapeEnd":"00:01:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"015-202","nextCode":"016-002","transcript":[{"start":67.51,"end":68.12,"text":"Words please."},{"start":68.14,"end":70,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection. The primary purpose of this brief exchange was to place a call to his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. The conversation served solely as a logistical request for administrative assistance.","topics":["White House operations","Rose Mary Woods","administrative support","telephone communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:29:36.712Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","rose-mary-woods","administrative-support","telephone-communications"],"audioDurationSec":70,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-001.mp3","bytes":1692106,"durationSec":70.43,"bitrate":192210,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/016/conversation-016-001","catalogNaId":417191251,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417191251","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}