{"conversationCode":"017-025","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":25,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-025","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T21:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T21:57:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"4:55 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"4:57 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 4:55 pm and 4:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-025 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. 17-25\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:55 pm and 4:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Stewart J.O. Alsop","filename":["017-025.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:24:15","tapeEnd":"01:24:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-024","nextCode":"017-026","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":6.56,"text":"Mr. Stewart Alsop, please."},{"start":6.58,"end":6.78,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to journalist Stewart J.O. Alsop. This brief administrative interaction served as the initiation of a direct line of communication between the President and the prominent political columnist. No further discussion occurred during this recording segment.","topics":["Stewart J.O. Alsop","White House communications","Presidential correspondence","Journalism","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:43:59.680Z"},"topicSlugs":["stewart-j-o-alsop","white-house-communications","presidential-correspondence","journalism","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-025.mp3","bytes":203754,"durationSec":8.43,"bitrate":193276,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-025.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-025","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-025","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}