{"conversationCode":"029-016","tapeNumber":29,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-029-016","startDateTime":"1972-08-04T14:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-04T17:09:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Aug-1972","startTime":"10:37 AM","endDate":"4-Aug-1972","endTime":"1:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:37 am and 1:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 29-16\n\nDate: August 4, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:37 am and 1:09 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 761-7C]\n\n     Request for a call to Richard K. Cook","filename":["029-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"029-015","nextCode":"029-017","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.47,"text":"I won't cook anyway."},{"start":4.49,"end":4.63,"text":"Please."},{"start":4.65,"end":6.88,"text":"Could you get Mr. Dick Cook, please, Richard Cook?"},{"start":6.89,"end":7.58,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Richard K. Cook. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to facilitate communication with a member of his staff. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief connection.","topics":["White House operations","Richard K. Cook","Communication logistics","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:36:08.389Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","richard-k-cook","communication-logistics","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"029-016.mp3","bytes":195604,"durationSec":8.08,"bitrate":193667,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.083Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/029-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/029/conversation-029-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}