{"conversationCode":"016-046","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":46,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-046","startDateTime":"1971-12-08T15:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-08T16:03:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Dec-1971","startTime":"10:55 AM","endDate":"8-Dec-1971","endTime":"11:03 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:03 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-046 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. 16-46\n\nDate: December 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:55 am and 11:03 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 632-8]\n\n     Request for a call to George H.W. Bush","filename":["016-046.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:29:21","tapeEnd":"01:29:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-045","nextCode":"016-047","transcript":[{"start":0.52,"end":5.13,"text":"Could you get me Ambassador George Bush in New York, please?"},{"start":5.21,"end":7.29,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a telephone connection with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations George H.W. Bush. The communication was strictly administrative, serving as a directive to initiate a conversation with the Ambassador in New York. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["George H.W. Bush","United Nations","White House communications","Diplomatic coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:33:42.115Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-h-w-bush","united-nations","white-house-communications","diplomatic-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-046.mp3","bytes":175541,"durationSec":7.26,"bitrate":193564,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-046.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-046","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-046","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}