{"conversationCode":"016-115","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":115,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-115","startDateTime":"1971-12-18T20:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-18T20:35:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Dec-1971","startTime":"3:09 PM","endDate":"18-Dec-1971","endTime":"3:35 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","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 an unknown time between 3:09 pm and 3:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-115 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. 16-115\n\nDate: December 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:35 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 310-11]\n\n     Request for a call to Muriel L. Hartley","filename":["016-115.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:58:32","tapeEnd":"03:58:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-114","nextCode":"016-116","transcript":[{"start":2.38,"end":4.8,"text":"Could you try Mrs. Bartley now, please?"},{"start":4.82,"end":5.06,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to Muriel L. Hartley. The brief interaction served solely to facilitate this specific communication. No further policy or administrative matters were discussed during the exchange.","topics":["White House communications","Presidential scheduling","Muriel L. Hartley"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:39:59.124Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling","muriel-l-hartley"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-115.mp3","bytes":189334,"durationSec":7.84,"bitrate":193296,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.620Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-115.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-115","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-115","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}