{"conversationCode":"017-043","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":43,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-043","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T02:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T02:09:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"9:05 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"9:09 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 9:05 pm and 9:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-043 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. 17-43\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:05 pm and 9:09 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy","filename":["017-043.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:57:37","tapeEnd":"01:57:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-042","nextCode":"017-044","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":8.12,"text":"Yes, Mr. Kravitz?"},{"start":8.14,"end":8.78,"text":"I would like to get Mr. Mulcahy."},{"start":8.8,"end":9.13,"text":"All right, fine."},{"start":9.15,"end":9.35,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":9.37,"end":9.57,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief telephone request to the White House operator to be connected with John A. “Jack” Mulcahy. The primary purpose of the communication was to facilitate this specific call during the Christmas Eve holiday. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["John A. Mulcahy","Communications","White House operations","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:45:37.546Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-a-mulcahy","communications","white-house-operations","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-043.mp3","bytes":230085,"durationSec":9.53,"bitrate":193096,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-043.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-043","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-043","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}