{"conversationCode":"016-023","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":23,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-023","startDateTime":"1971-12-06T17:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-06T17:50:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Dec-1971","startTime":"12:49 PM","endDate":"6-Dec-1971","endTime":"12:50 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Young, Milton R.;","description":"On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Milton R. Young talked on the telephone from 12:49 pm to 12:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-023 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. 16-23\n\nDate: December 6, 1971\nTime: 12:49 pm - 12:50 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Milton R. Young.\n\n[See Conversation No. 630-7C]\n\n     Appropriations Committee\n         -Young’s work\n\n     Birthday wishes\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/02/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[016-023-w001]\n[Duration: 6s]\n\n     Election results\n           -Opponent’s lack of strength\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["016-023.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:52:03","tapeEnd":"00:52:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Young, Milton R."],"prevCode":"016-022","nextCode":"016-024","transcript":[{"start":0.22,"end":0.86,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.21,"end":3.37,"text":"Senator Young, Mr. President."},{"start":3.39,"end":4.22,"text":"Hello, Mel."},{"start":5.23,"end":5.61,"text":"Hello."},{"start":5.91,"end":6.79,"text":"Hello."},{"start":6.81,"end":7.25,"text":"Milt?"},{"start":7.27,"end":7.49,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":7.67,"end":15.48,"text":"I know that in these closing days of the session you're probably tied up in the Senate, but I'm just checking my files here and found out you had your birthday today."},{"start":16.28,"end":26.33,"text":"And I couldn't have the fellow that's done so much for us down there and, you know, and carrying on those appropriations committees and the rest go by without telling you congratulations."},{"start":26.45,"end":27.93,"text":"Well, that's real nice."},{"start":27.97,"end":30.49,"text":"Yeah, and I hope you have many happy returns."},{"start":37.04,"end":38.13,"text":"Okay, Bill."},{"start":38.33,"end":39.69,"text":"Thanks a million."},{"start":40.52,"end":40.6,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon placed a brief telephone call to Senator Milton R. Young to extend personal birthday greetings. During the exchange, the President acknowledged the Senator’s significant legislative contributions, specifically highlighting his dedicated work on the Senate Appropriations Committee. The conversation served primarily as a gesture of political rapport and goodwill between the two men.","topics":["Milton R. Young","Birthday greetings","Appropriations Committee","Executive-Legislative relations","Political rapport"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:31:37.390Z"},"topicSlugs":["milton-r-young","birthday-greetings","appropriations-committee","executive-legislative-relations","political-rapport"],"audioDurationSec":41,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-023.mp3","bytes":974888,"durationSec":40.56,"bitrate":192269,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-023.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-023","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/016/conversation-016-023","catalogNaId":417191295,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417191295","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}