{"conversationCode":"427-016","tapeNumber":427,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-427-016","startDateTime":"1973-04-17T01:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-04-17T01:58:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1973","startTime":"8:45 PM","endDate":"16-Apr-1973","endTime":"8:58 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:45 pm and 8:58 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 427-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 427-16\n\nDate: April 16, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 8:45 pm and 8:58 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with White House operator [?].\n\n       Request for telephone call [?]","filename":["427-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"427-015","nextCode":"427-017","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":5.5,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":5.52,"end":5.64,"text":"Hello?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing telephone connection. The brief exchange served exclusively as a logistical step to place a call. No further substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this interaction.","topics":["Telephone communication","Logistics","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T19:32:57.014Z"},"topicSlugs":["telephone-communication","logistics","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"427-016.mp3","bytes":339968,"durationSec":10.52,"bitrate":258530,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:04.104Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/427-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/427-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/427/conversation-427-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}