{"conversationCode":"017-004","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-004","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T16:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T18:37:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:55 AM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"1:37 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 24, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:55 am and 1:37 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-004 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. 17-4\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:55 am and 1:37 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 309-2]\n\n     Request for a call to George P. Shultz","filename":["017-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:55","tapeEnd":"00:02:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-003","nextCode":"017-005","transcript":[{"start":3.74,"end":5.74,"text":"George Shultz, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request to the White House operator to place a telephone call to George P. Shultz, who was serving as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget at the time. The brief exchange serves as a procedural step to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and Shultz. No substantive policy matters were discussed during this connection attempt.","topics":["George P. Shultz","White House communications","Presidential scheduling","Office of Management and Budget"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:42:05.556Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling","office-of-management-and-budget"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-004.mp3","bytes":153599,"durationSec":6.33,"bitrate":194267,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}