{"conversationCode":"016-083","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":83,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-083","startDateTime":"1971-12-10T21:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-10T22:15:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Dec-1971","startTime":"4:42 PM","endDate":"10-Dec-1971","endTime":"5:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 5:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-083 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. 16-83\n\nDate: December 10, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:42 pm and 5:15 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 636-9A]\n\n     Request for a call to Robert P. Griffin","filename":["016-083.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:14:02","tapeEnd":"03:14:10","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-082","nextCode":"016-084","transcript":[{"start":0.27,"end":5.03,"text":"Senator Griffin?"},{"start":5.12,"end":8.34,"text":"Yes Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Senator Robert P. Griffin. This brief administrative exchange served as the precursor to a direct consultation between the President and the Senator. No further substantive policy discussions were recorded during this connection.","topics":["Robert P. Griffin","White House operations","Presidential communication","Senate relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:37:04.557Z"},"topicSlugs":["robert-p-griffin","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","senate-relations"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-083.mp3","bytes":201246,"durationSec":8.32,"bitrate":193579,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.620Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-083.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-083","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-083","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}