{"conversationCode":"016-038","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":38,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-038","startDateTime":"1971-12-08T04:41:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-08T04:45:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:41 PM","endDate":"7-Dec-1971","endTime":"11:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:41 pm and 11:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-038 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. 16-38\n\nDate: December 7, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:41 pm and 11:45 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["016-038.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:21:27","tapeEnd":"01:21:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-037","nextCode":"016-039","transcript":[{"start":1.9,"end":6.13,"text":"Dr. Kessinger, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a telephone connection with his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. This brief interaction served solely as an administrative coordination to facilitate direct communication between the President and Kissinger. No further substantive discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House communications","National Security Advisor","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:32:59.637Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-communications","national-security-advisor","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-038.mp3","bytes":147956,"durationSec":6.09,"bitrate":194346,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-038.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-038","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-038","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}