{"conversationCode":"017-027","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":27,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-027","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T21:57:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T22:01:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"4:57 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"5:01 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 4:57 pm and 5:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-027 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. 17-27\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:57 pm and 5:01 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.","filename":["017-027.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:24:39","tapeEnd":"01:24:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-026","nextCode":"017-028","transcript":[{"start":0.1,"end":5.29,"text":"Have dinner?"},{"start":5.31,"end":5.74,"text":"General Haig, please."},{"start":5.76,"end":5.96,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request an immediate phone connection to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The brief exchange served as a logistical instruction to facilitate communication with his deputy assistant for national security affairs on Christmas Eve. No other substantive matters were discussed during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","White House communications","Presidential scheduling","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:44:11.263Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-027.mp3","bytes":173661,"durationSec":7.17,"bitrate":193720,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-027.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-027","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-027","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}