{"conversationCode":"017-041","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":41,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-041","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T01:56:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T02:04:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"8:56 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"9:04 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 8:56 pm and 9:04 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-041 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. 17-41\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:56 pm and 9:04 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to John B. Connally","filename":["017-041.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:55:20","tapeEnd":"01:55:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-040","nextCode":"017-042","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":6.67,"text":"This is for you."},{"start":6.7,"end":6.92,"text":"Sorry, bye."},{"start":6.94,"end":7.14,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to facilitate the connection. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this interaction.","topics":["John B. Connally","White House operations","Administrative communications","Executive scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:45:26.981Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-b-connally","white-house-operations","administrative-communications","executive-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-041.mp3","bytes":171780,"durationSec":7.1,"bitrate":193626,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-041.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-041","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-041","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}