{"conversationCode":"016-052","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":52,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-052","startDateTime":"1971-12-08T19:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-08T20:30:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Dec-1971","startTime":"2:22 PM","endDate":"8-Dec-1971","endTime":"3:30 PM","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 2:22 pm and 3:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-052 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. 16-52\n\nDate: December 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:22 pm and 3:30 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Arthur S. Flemming","filename":["016-052.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:48:45","tapeEnd":"01:48:53","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-051","nextCode":"016-053","transcript":[{"start":2.24,"end":4.36,"text":"You can meet Dr. Arthur Fleming, please."},{"start":4.44,"end":5.41,"text":"Dr. Arthur Fleming?"},{"start":5.43,"end":5.55,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":5.78,"end":6.46,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Dr. Arthur S. Flemming. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to initiate contact with Flemming for an unspecified purpose. No further substantive discussion or decision-making occurred during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Arthur S. Flemming","Communication","White House operations","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:34:15.218Z"},"topicSlugs":["arthur-s-flemming","communication","white-house-operations","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-052.mp3","bytes":207515,"durationSec":8.58,"bitrate":193577,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.619Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-052.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-052","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-052","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}