{"conversationCode":"318-016","tapeNumber":318,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-318-016","startDateTime":"1972-02-02T19:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-02T19:04:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Feb-1972","startTime":"2:00 PM","endDate":"2-Feb-1972","endTime":"2:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 2, 1972, 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 2:00 pm and 2:04 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 318-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 318-16\n\nDate: February 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:04 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 20-24]","filename":["318-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:44:17","tapeEnd":"01:44:28","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"318-015","nextCode":"318-017","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.13,"text":"Rob, take her, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed the White House operator to connect him with an individual named Rob to facilitate a specific telephone communication. The brief exchange served as an administrative request to patch through an outside party. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["White House operator","Telecommunications","Administrative logistics","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:47:25.450Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operator","telecommunications","administrative-logistics","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"318-016.mp3","bytes":259987,"durationSec":6.36,"bitrate":326890,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.568Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/318-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/318-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/318/conversation-318-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}