{"conversationCode":"015-017","tapeNumber":15,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-015-017","startDateTime":"1971-11-18T12:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-18T13:01:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Nov-1971","startTime":"7:49 AM","endDate":"18-Nov-1971","endTime":"8:01 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:49 am and 8:01 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-017 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 15-17\n\nDate: November 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:49 am and 8:01 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 621-4]\n\f     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["015-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:25:18","tapeEnd":"00:25:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"015-016","nextCode":"015-018","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":5.79,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request through the White House operator to be connected with his National Security Advisor, Henry A. Kissinger. This brief administrative exchange serves the purpose of facilitating urgent executive communication. No substantive policy discussions occur, as the call functions solely to establish contact between the President and his advisor.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House communications","Executive operations","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:12:35.530Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-communications","executive-operations","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"015-017.mp3","bytes":160495,"durationSec":6.62,"bitrate":193869,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.618Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/015-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/015-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/15/conversation-015-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}