{"conversationCode":"017-014","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-014","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T19:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T19:16:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"2:12 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"2:16 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 2:12 pm and 2:16 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-014 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. 17-14\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:12 pm and 2:16 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 309-13]\n\n     Request for a call to Ronald W. Reagan","filename":["017-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:23:10","tapeEnd":"00:23:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-013","nextCode":"017-015","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":1.53,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":1.76,"end":2.81,"text":"Governor Reagan, please."},{"start":2.85,"end":3.88,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to California Governor Ronald Reagan. This brief exchange served as the administrative request to initiate communication with the Governor on Christmas Eve. No further substantive discussion took place during this specific telephone connection.","topics":["Ronald Reagan","Presidential communications","White House operations","Governor"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:42:58.872Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-reagan","presidential-communications","white-house-operations","governor"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-014.mp3","bytes":106578,"durationSec":4.38,"bitrate":194654,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-014.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-014","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-014","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}