{"conversationCode":"016-034","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":34,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-034","startDateTime":"1971-12-07T04:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-07T04:28:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:12 PM","endDate":"6-Dec-1971","endTime":"11:28 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 11:12 pm and 11:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-034 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. 16-34\n\nDate: December 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:12 pm and 11:28 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nWhite House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Henry A. Kissinger's location\n          -Call from Harold H. Saunders","filename":["016-034.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:06:33","tapeEnd":"01:06:42","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-033","nextCode":"016-035","transcript":[{"start":4.17,"end":5.21,"text":"He stepped out, and I'm sorry."},{"start":5.27,"end":8.65,"text":"He's out in the outside office."},{"start":8.68,"end":8.9,"text":"All right."},{"start":8.92,"end":9.5,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to determine the current whereabouts of Henry Kissinger. The inquiry was prompted by an incoming call for Kissinger from Harold H. Saunders. The operator confirmed that Kissinger had briefly stepped out of his office, concluding the brief administrative exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","Harold H. Saunders","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:32:37.801Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","harold-h-saunders","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-034.mp3","bytes":230712,"durationSec":9.55,"bitrate":193225,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-034.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-034","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-034","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}