{"conversationCode":"799-021","tapeNumber":799,"conversationNumber":21,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-799-021","startDateTime":"1972-10-16T19:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-16T19:58:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Oct-1972","startTime":"3:58 PM","endDate":"16-Oct-1972","endTime":"3:58 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 3:58 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 799-021 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 799-21\n\nDate: October 16, 1972\nTime: 3:58 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 31-66]","filename":["799-021.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"799-020","nextCode":"799-022","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":7.36,"text":"You better be Mr. Robert Galvin of Motorola Company in Franklin Park, Illinois."},{"start":9.32,"end":11.2,"text":"Yeah, Motorola."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a call through the White House operator to contact Robert Galvin, the head of Motorola. The brief exchange serves as a logistical setup to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and the corporate executive. No further policy discussions or significant decisions occur during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Robert Galvin","Motorola","White House communication","Executive scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-08T00:01:01.809Z"},"topicSlugs":["robert-galvin","motorola","white-house-communication","executive-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":17,"audioFiles":[{"file":"799-021.mp3","bytes":407509,"durationSec":16.92,"bitrate":192675,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:58.477Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:35.452Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/799-021.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/799-021","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/799/conversation-799-021","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}