{"conversationCode":"017-053","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":53,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-053","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T02:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T04:17:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"9:35 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"11:17 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 9:35 pm and 11:17 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-053 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. 17-53\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:35 pm and 11:17 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods","filename":["017-053.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:19:50","tapeEnd":"02:19:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-052","nextCode":"017-054","transcript":[{"start":3.52,"end":5.33,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":5.35,"end":5.85,"text":"You ring this, would you?"},{"start":5.87,"end":6.08,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. The brief interaction served exclusively as a procedural request to facilitate communication with his long-time aide on Christmas Eve. No policy matters or administrative decisions were addressed during this connection.","topics":["Rose Mary Woods","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:46:31.294Z"},"topicSlugs":["rose-mary-woods","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-053.mp3","bytes":184946,"durationSec":7.65,"bitrate":193361,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-053.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-053","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-053","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}