{"conversationCode":"273-016","tapeNumber":273,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-273-016","startDateTime":"1971-08-12T21:07:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-12T21:16:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Aug-1971","startTime":"5:07 PM","endDate":"12-Aug-1971","endTime":"5:16 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:07 pm and 5:16 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 273-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 273-16\n\nDate: August 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:07 pm and 5:16 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["273a.mp3","273b.mp3","273c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:56:20","tapeEnd":"01:56:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"273-015","nextCode":"273-017","tapeTranscriptFile":"273a.mp3,273b.mp3,273c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":6992.86,"end":6993.11,"text":"Cofiwch."},{"start":6993.27,"end":6995.31,"text":"Cofiwch."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":6966.625,"end":7005.375,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator place a telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. The interaction served as a brief administrative directive to facilitate communication between the President and a key aide. No further substantive discussion took place during this short exchange.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:39:03.163Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":20,"audioFiles":[{"file":"273a.mp3","bytes":117365445,"durationSec":7335.25,"bitrate":128001,"missing":false},{"file":"273b.mp3","bytes":117454470,"durationSec":7340.82,"bitrate":128001,"missing":false},{"file":"273c.mp3","bytes":71222751,"durationSec":4451.36,"bitrate":128001,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.008Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/273a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/273b.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/273c.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/273-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/273/conversation-273-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}