{"conversationCode":"017-030","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":30,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-030","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T22:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T22:18:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"5:10 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"5:18 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 5:10 pm and 5:18 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-030 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. 17-30\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:18 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to William P. Rogers","filename":["017-030.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:33:03","tapeEnd":"01:33:13","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-029","nextCode":"017-031","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":9.59,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers on Christmas Eve. The brief exchange served as a logistical coordination to facilitate direct communication between the President and his chief diplomat. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief request for assistance.","topics":["William P. Rogers","White House operations","Diplomatic communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:44:27.289Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","white-house-operations","diplomatic-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-030.mp3","bytes":230712,"durationSec":9.55,"bitrate":193321,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-030.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-030","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-030","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}