{"conversationCode":"487-016","tapeNumber":487,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-487-016","startDateTime":"1971-04-23T18:04:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-23T18:11:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Apr-1971","startTime":"1:04 PM","endDate":"23-Apr-1971","endTime":"1:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:04 pm and 1:11 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 487-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 487-16\n\nDate: April 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:04 pm and 1:11 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:04 and 1:11\npm.\n\n[See Conversation No. 2-34]","filename":["487-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:17:37","tapeEnd":"03:18:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"487-015","nextCode":"487-017","transcript":[{"start":3.31,"end":4.78,"text":"Tiger Tap, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs the White House operator to place a phone call to an individual identified as 'Tiger Tap.' The brief exchange serves as a routine administrative request to facilitate a direct line of communication for the President. No further substantive policy matters or decisions are discussed during this short interaction.","topics":["White House communications","Telephone operations","Presidential scheduling","Tiger Tap"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:53:47.332Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","telephone-operations","presidential-scheduling","tiger-tap"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"487-016.mp3","bytes":191842,"durationSec":7.92,"bitrate":193826,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.990Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/487-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/487-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/487/conversation-487-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}