{"conversationCode":"016-028","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":28,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-028","startDateTime":"1971-12-06T23:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-07T03:56:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Dec-1971","startTime":"6:47 PM","endDate":"6-Dec-1971","endTime":"10:56 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 6:47 pm and 10:56 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-028 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. 16-28\n\nDate: December 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:47 pm and 10:56 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["016-028.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:56:18","tapeEnd":"00:56:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-027","nextCode":"016-029","transcript":[{"start":0.25,"end":3.53,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.55,"end":3.95,"text":"Would you ring this?"},{"start":5.55,"end":5.75,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a personal call to First Lady Pat Nixon. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to establish a connection with the President's spouse. No further official policy or political matters were discussed during this brief communication.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:32:04.555Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-028.mp3","bytes":138552,"durationSec":5.71,"bitrate":194017,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-028.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-028","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-028","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}