{"conversationCode":"016-129","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":129,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-129","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 016-129 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. 16-129\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. 639-29]\n\n     Call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["016-129.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:43:54","tapeEnd":"04:44:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-128","nextCode":"016-130","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.62,"text":"Hi."},{"start":2.64,"end":3.29,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.31,"end":4.77,"text":"You can let that call go."},{"start":4.93,"end":5.98,"text":"I'll call it later."},{"start":6,"end":6.5,"text":"All right."},{"start":6.52,"end":8.05,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to cancel a pending call to Charles W. Colson. He directed the operator to hold the connection, deciding to postpone the communication to a later time. The brief exchange reflects a change in the President's immediate scheduling priorities regarding his outreach to Colson.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","Scheduling","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:41:16.149Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","scheduling","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-129.mp3","bytes":194977,"durationSec":8.06,"bitrate":193600,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.620Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-129.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-129","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-129","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}