{"conversationCode":"017-016","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-016","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T20:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T20:09:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"3:09 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"3:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","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 3:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-016 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. 17-16\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: 3:09 pm\nLocation: White House telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for calls to John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy and W. Clement Stone","filename":["017-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:26:38","tapeEnd":"00:26:59","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-015","nextCode":"017-017","transcript":[{"start":4.37,"end":18.32,"text":"Operator, I'd like to place a call to Mr. John Mulcahy, Jack Mulcahy."},{"start":18.34,"end":18.91,"text":"I think you have his number."},{"start":18.93,"end":19.11,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":19.13,"end":19.75,"text":"And also one to Mr. Clem Stone."},{"start":19.77,"end":20.27,"text":"He's in Chicago, I think."},{"start":20.29,"end":20.41,"text":"Stone."},{"start":20.43,"end":20.79,"text":"Stone, Clem Stone."},{"start":20.81,"end":21.11,"text":"Yes, thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate outgoing calls to two prominent associates, John A. “Jack” Mulcahy and W. Clement Stone. The brief interaction served as a logistical request to initiate these communications on Christmas Eve. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Presidential communications","John A. Mulcahy","W. Clement Stone","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:43:10.478Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communications","john-a-mulcahy","w-clement-stone","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-016.mp3","bytes":509700,"durationSec":21.17,"bitrate":192581,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}