{"conversationCode":"016-128","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":128,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-128","startDateTime":"1971-12-21T22:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-22T03:11:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Dec-1971","startTime":"5:58 PM","endDate":"21-Dec-1971","endTime":"10:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:58 pm and 10:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-128 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. 16-128\n\nDate: December 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:58 pm and 10:11 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 639-28]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["016-128.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:43:48","tapeEnd":"04:43:54","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-127","nextCode":"016-129","transcript":[{"start":0.34,"end":2.82,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":2.86,"end":5.04,"text":"Coulson, please."},{"start":5.06,"end":6.23,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. This brief communication served as a routine administrative request to facilitate direct contact between the President and a key advisor. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House communications","Presidential operations","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:41:10.924Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-communications","presidential-operations","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-128.mp3","bytes":150464,"durationSec":6.2,"bitrate":194264,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.619Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-128.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-128","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/016/conversation-016-128","catalogNaId":417191505,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417191505","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}