{"conversationCode":"017-056","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":56,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-056","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T04:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T04:26:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:22 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"11:26 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 11:22 pm and 11:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-056 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. 17-56\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:22 pm and 11:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower","filename":["017-056.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:26:29","tapeEnd":"02:26:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-055","nextCode":"017-057","transcript":[{"start":3.95,"end":4.84,"text":"Why did you ring her, Julian?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone exchange with the White House operator to clarify the status of a call he intended to place to his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower. The President questions the operator regarding the previous routing or status of the connection. The conversation serves as a logistical check to facilitate personal communication with a family member on Christmas Eve.","topics":["Julie Nixon Eisenhower","White House switchboard","Presidential communications","family"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:46:47.737Z"},"topicSlugs":["julie-nixon-eisenhower","white-house-switchboard","presidential-communications","family"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-056.mp3","bytes":175541,"durationSec":7.25,"bitrate":193575,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-056.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-056","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-056","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}