{"conversationCode":"019-016","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-016","startDateTime":"1972-01-19T21:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-19T21:46:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Jan-1972","startTime":"4:42 PM","endDate":"19-Jan-1972","endTime":"4:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 4:46 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 19-16\n\nDate: January 19, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:42 pm and 4:46 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 315-24E]\n\n     Request for a call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.","filename":["019-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"019-015","nextCode":"019-017","transcript":[{"start":3.27,"end":4.94,"text":"Uh, Ray Price, please."},{"start":5.33,"end":5.54,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his speechwriter, Raymond K. Price, Jr. The call served as a routine administrative request to initiate a conversation with a member of his communications staff. No further substantive policy discussions were captured in this brief exchange.","topics":["Raymond K. Price, Jr.","White House operations","Staff communication","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:36:27.793Z"},"topicSlugs":["raymond-k-price-jr","white-house-operations","staff-communication","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-016.mp3","bytes":166764,"durationSec":6.87,"bitrate":194123,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}