{"conversationCode":"016-059","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":59,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-059","startDateTime":"1971-12-08T20:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-08T22:08:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Dec-1971","startTime":"3:55 PM","endDate":"8-Dec-1971","endTime":"5:08 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 3:55 pm and 5:08 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-059 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. 16-59\n\nDate: December 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:55 pm and 5:08 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 307-29]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["016-059.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:08:37","tapeEnd":"02:08:42","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-058","nextCode":"016-060","transcript":[{"start":1.8,"end":4.41,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a follow-up call to Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to facilitate direct communication with his special counsel. No substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief connection.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:34:52.890Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-059.mp3","bytes":138552,"durationSec":5.7,"bitrate":194294,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-059.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-059","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/016/conversation-016-059","catalogNaId":417191367,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417191367","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}