{"conversationCode":"016-026","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":26,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-026","startDateTime":"1971-12-06T18:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-06T23:44:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:05 PM","endDate":"6-Dec-1971","endTime":"6:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 6:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-026 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. 16-26\n\nDate: December 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:05 pm and 6:44 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 630-22A]\n\n     Peter M. Flanigan\n\n     Request for a call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.","filename":["016-026.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:52:59","tapeEnd":"00:53:14","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-025","nextCode":"016-027","transcript":[{"start":6.36,"end":9.01,"text":"Get Mr. Lewis Powell, if you can."},{"start":10.21,"end":12.16,"text":"He's just been confirmed as a justice."},{"start":12.58,"end":13.35,"text":"Lewis Powell, surely."},{"start":14.01,"end":14.11,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed the White House operator to place a call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr. following the Senate's confirmation of Powell as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The President intended to personally congratulate the new justice on his appointment. This conversation serves as a brief logistical step in the administration's outreach to key judicial appointees.","topics":["Lewis F. Powell Jr.","Supreme Court confirmation","White House communications","Judicial appointments"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:31:53.543Z"},"topicSlugs":["lewis-f-powell-jr","supreme-court-confirmation","white-house-communications","judicial-appointments"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-026.mp3","bytes":358608,"durationSec":14.89,"bitrate":192701,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-026.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-026","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-026","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}