{"conversationCode":"017-021","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":21,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-021","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T20:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T21:34:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"3:58 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"4:34 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 3:58 pm and 4:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-021 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. 17-21\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:58 pm and 4:34 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Incoming calls\n\n     Request for calls to F. Donald Nixon and Edward C. Nixon","filename":["017-021.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:05:41","tapeEnd":"01:06:04","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-020","nextCode":"017-022","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.96,"text":"Hello, operator."},{"start":4.98,"end":11.17,"text":"I got back, and so if any of those calls come in now, I can take them."},{"start":11.19,"end":11.29,"text":"Sure."},{"start":19.2,"end":19.98,"text":"I'd also like to add a couple of calls."},{"start":20,"end":21.91,"text":"I'd like to call my brother, Don, in California, and my brother, Eddie, in Seattle, Washington."},{"start":21.93,"end":22.13,"text":"All right."},{"start":22.15,"end":22.93,"text":"Anytime you can get any of those calls."},{"start":22.95,"end":23.05,"text":"Fine."},{"start":23.07,"end":23.27,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":23.29,"end":23.49,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to provide instructions regarding his incoming and outgoing communications on Christmas Eve. He requested that the operator connect him with his brothers, F. Donald Nixon in California and Edward C. Nixon in Seattle. The conversation concluded with the President directing the operator to place these family calls at her earliest convenience.","topics":["Presidential communications","Family","Holiday","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:43:38.382Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communications","family","holiday","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-021.mp3","bytes":565497,"durationSec":23.49,"bitrate":192594,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.619Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-021.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-021","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-021","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}