{"conversationCode":"017-049","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":49,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-049","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T02:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T02:22:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"9:20 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"9:22 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 9:20 pm and 9:22 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-049 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. 17-49\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:20 pm and 9:22 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for calls to Donald McI. Kendall and Hobart D. Lewis","filename":["017-049.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:04:05","tapeEnd":"02:04:17","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-048","nextCode":"017-050","transcript":[{"start":2.36,"end":6.26,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":6.28,"end":7,"text":"Mr. Don Kendall in New York, please."},{"start":7.02,"end":7.2,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":7.22,"end":8.07,"text":"I'd also like to talk to Hobart Lewis."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place outgoing telephone calls to business executive Donald McI. Kendall and publisher Hobart D. Lewis. These requests initiated the process of connecting the President with two prominent private-sector figures on Christmas Eve. No further substantive dialogue occurred during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["Donald McI. Kendall","Hobart D. Lewis","White House communications","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:46:09.966Z"},"topicSlugs":["donald-mci-kendall","hobart-d-lewis","white-house-communications","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-049.mp3","bytes":275225,"durationSec":11.39,"bitrate":193300,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-049.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-049","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/017/conversation-017-049","catalogNaId":417191861,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417191861","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}