{"conversationCode":"017-010","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-010","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T18:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T18:56:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:51 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"1:56 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 1:51 pm and 1:56 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-010 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. 17-10\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:51 pm and 1:56 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 309-9]\n\n     Request for a call to John W. Chancellor","filename":["017-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:12:56","tapeEnd":"00:13:32","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-009","nextCode":"017-011","transcript":[{"start":6.88,"end":7.04,"text":"Fine."},{"start":7.07,"end":7.63,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."},{"start":7.65,"end":11.79,"text":"And, operator, I had a couple of other calls at office."},{"start":11.81,"end":17.08,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":17.1,"end":18.12,"text":"One second here."},{"start":18.64,"end":22.89,"text":"Let me find it."},{"start":22.91,"end":28.82,"text":"Let me find it."},{"start":28.84,"end":30.08,"text":"No, that's all right at the moment."},{"start":30.26,"end":31.38,"text":"Fine, Mr. President."},{"start":31.4,"end":32.62,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief administrative exchange with the White House operator to manage his outgoing correspondence. During the call, the President specifically requested to be connected with journalist John W. Chancellor. He briefly searched for additional contact information before deciding to conclude the request, deferring further calls to a later time.","topics":["White House communications","John W. Chancellor","Presidential scheduling","administrative operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:42:37.363Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","john-w-chancellor","presidential-scheduling","administrative-operations"],"audioDurationSec":34,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-010.mp3","bytes":826931,"durationSec":34.39,"bitrate":192376,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-010","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}