{"conversationCode":"016-130","tapeNumber":16,"conversationNumber":130,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-016-130","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 016-130 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. 16-130\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     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["016-130.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:44:02","tapeEnd":"04:44:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-129","nextCode":"016-131","transcript":[{"start":2.26,"end":4.13,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served as an administrative request to reach Colson for a follow-up conversation. No further policy or substantive matters were discussed during this initial contact.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Administrative communications","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:41:21.788Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","administrative-communications","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"016-130.mp3","bytes":162376,"durationSec":6.69,"bitrate":194134,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/016-130.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-130","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/16/conversation-016-130","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}