{"conversationCode":"017-054","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":54,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-054","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 017-054 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. 17-54\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 H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["017-054.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:19:58","tapeEnd":"02:20:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-053","nextCode":"017-055","transcript":[{"start":5.65,"end":8.99,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an urgent connection with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief administrative interaction served as the necessary step to bridge communication between the President and his key advisor during the holiday evening. The exchange focused exclusively on initiating this logistical task to ensure the two could speak directly.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:46:36.703Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-054.mp3","bytes":226324,"durationSec":9.38,"bitrate":193111,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-054.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-054","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-054","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}