{"conversationCode":"021-016","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-016","startDateTime":"1972-03-07T19:29:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-07T19:38:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Mar-1972","startTime":"2:29 PM","endDate":"7-Mar-1972","endTime":"2:38 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ribicoff, Abraham A.;","description":"On March 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Abraham A. Ribicoff talked on the telephone from 2:29 pm to 2:38 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-016 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. 21-16\n\nDate: March 7, 1972\nTime: 2:29 pm - 2:38 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Abraham A. Ribicoff.\n\n[See Conversation No. 322-27]\n\n     Ruth Siegel Ribicoff\n          -Previous Republican Congressional Leadership meeting\n          -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["021-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:40:37","tapeEnd":"00:41:06","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ribicoff, Abraham A."],"prevCode":"021-015","nextCode":"021-017","transcript":[{"start":0.69,"end":1.59,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.61,"end":3.39,"text":"Mr. President, I have Senator Ribicoff."},{"start":4.13,"end":4.98,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":5.82,"end":6.62,"text":"Mr. President, sir."},{"start":6.64,"end":6.92,"text":"Hello."},{"start":7.64,"end":8.42,"text":"Hello, Mr. President."},{"start":8.84,"end":16.8,"text":"Babe, I just learned this morning at our leaders' meeting that Mrs. Ribicoff was very ill, and I want you to know that we were thinking of her and we're hoping for the best."},{"start":16.82,"end":17.78,"text":"We appreciate that, Mr. President."},{"start":17.98,"end":21.46,"text":"And you extend my very best wishes to her and Mrs. Nixon."},{"start":21.64,"end":23.09,"text":"It was very nice of you to call."},{"start":23.11,"end":25.67,"text":"And you just, I know it's a tough time, but we're all pulling for you."},{"start":25.73,"end":26.25,"text":"Thanks a lot."},{"start":26.27,"end":26.41,"text":"Okay."},{"start":26.97,"end":27.05,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated this telephone call to Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff to offer his personal sympathies regarding the severe illness of the Senator’s wife, Ruth Siegel Ribicoff. The conversation served as a gesture of bipartisan goodwill, with the President conveying that the White House leadership was thinking of the family. Nixon also requested that the Senator extend best wishes from both himself and First Lady Pat Nixon during this difficult time.","topics":["Abraham A. Ribicoff","Ruth Siegel Ribicoff","Pat Nixon","White House condolences","bipartisan relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:06:18.075Z"},"topicSlugs":["abraham-a-ribicoff","ruth-siegel-ribicoff","pat-nixon","white-house-condolences","bipartisan-relations"],"audioDurationSec":28,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-016.mp3","bytes":673958,"durationSec":28.02,"bitrate":192416,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}