{"conversationCode":"016-108","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":108,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-108","startDateTime":"1971-12-18T17:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-18T17:43:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Dec-1971","startTime":"12:43 PM","endDate":"18-Dec-1971","endTime":"12:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 12:43 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-108 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. 16-108\n\nDate: December 18, 1971\nTime: 12:43 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 639-5A]\n\n     Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon","filename":["016-108.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:47:54","tapeEnd":"03:48:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-107","nextCode":"016-109","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":4.47,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.53,"end":5.32,"text":"Mrs. Nixon, please."},{"start":5.4,"end":7.29,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a personal telephone call to First Lady Pat Nixon. The exchange served as a routine administrative request to connect the President with his wife. No substantive political or policy matters were discussed during this brief communication.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:39:20.906Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-108.mp3","bytes":176168,"durationSec":7.26,"bitrate":194011,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.620Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-108.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-108","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/016/conversation-016-108","catalogNaId":417191465,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417191465","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}