{"conversationCode":"017-001","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-001","startDateTime":"1971-12-23T17:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-23T18:25:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Dec-1971","startTime":"12:09 PM","endDate":"23-Dec-1971","endTime":"1:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:09 pm and 1:25 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-001 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. 17-1\n\nDate: December 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:09 pm and 1:25 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 310-16]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["017-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:00:52","tapeEnd":"00:01:01","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"016-134","nextCode":"017-002","transcript":[{"start":6.82,"end":8.09,"text":"Coulson please."},{"start":8.15,"end":9.57,"text":"Thank you sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection. The primary purpose of the brief interaction was to request a call be placed to Charles W. Colson. No further substantive policy or administrative matters were discussed during this exchange.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:41:49.537Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-001.mp3","bytes":307199,"durationSec":12.72,"bitrate":193175,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.620Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}