{"conversationCode":"017-023","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":23,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-023","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T21:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T21:41:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"4:39 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"4:41 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 4:39 pm and 4:41 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-023 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. 17-23\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:39 pm and 4:41 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Donald H. Rumsfeld","filename":["017-023.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:10:50","tapeEnd":"01:10:56","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-022","nextCode":"017-024","transcript":[{"start":0.59,"end":3.62,"text":"Yes please."},{"start":3.64,"end":4.05,"text":"Mr. Rumsfeld please."},{"start":4.07,"end":4.27,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to Donald Rumsfeld. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and his advisor. No policy matters or substantive discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Donald Rumsfeld","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:43:48.754Z"},"topicSlugs":["donald-rumsfeld","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-023.mp3","bytes":102817,"durationSec":4.22,"bitrate":194879,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.619Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-023.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-023","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-023","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}