{"conversationCode":"042-053","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":53,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-053","startDateTime":"1971-04-16T15:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-16T16:06:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1971","startTime":"10:30 AM","endDate":"16-Apr-1971","endTime":"11:06 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 11:06 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-053 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 42-53\n\nDate: April 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:30 am and 11:06 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 250-6]\n\n     Call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["042-053.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:59:33","tapeEnd":"00:59:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"042-052","nextCode":"042-054","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.78,"text":"Colson please."},{"start":1.8,"end":2.43,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact special counsel Charles W. Colson. This communication serves as a standard administrative request to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and his aide. The call concludes immediately after the operator receives the instruction to connect the line.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications","Administrative procedures"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:18:58.597Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","administrative-procedures"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-053.mp3","bytes":32768,"durationSec":2.54,"bitrate":103151,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-053.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-053","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-053","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}