{"conversationCode":"037-016","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-016","startDateTime":"1973-03-01T15:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-01T15:52:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Mar-1973","startTime":"10:51 AM","endDate":"1-Mar-1973","endTime":"10:52 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:51 am and 10:52 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 37-16\n\nDate: March 1, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 10:51 am and 10:52 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 866-10]\n\nRequest for a call to Richard G. Kleindienst","filename":["037-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"037-015","nextCode":"037-017","transcript":[{"start":2.34,"end":3.62,"text":"Clean these, please."},{"start":3.64,"end":5.64,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an urgent communication. The primary purpose of the brief interaction was to request that the operator place a follow-up telephone call to Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange, as it served strictly as an administrative request to initiate a subsequent conversation.","topics":["Richard G. Kleindienst","White House operator","Telecommunications","Administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:09:54.250Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-g-kleindienst","white-house-operator","telecommunications","administration"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-016.mp3","bytes":63488,"durationSec":10.48,"bitrate":48464,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.788Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}