{"conversationCode":"017-060","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":60,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-060","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T13:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T14:34:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Dec-1971","startTime":"8:43 AM","endDate":"25-Dec-1971","endTime":"9:34 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:43 am and 9:34 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-060 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. 17-60\n\nDate: December 25, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:43 am and 9:34 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for calls to Rogers C. B. Morton, Clifford M. Hardin, John A. Volpe, George W.\n          Romney, and Earl L. Butz","filename":["017-060.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:33:43","tapeEnd":"02:34:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-059","nextCode":"017-061","transcript":[{"start":0.4,"end":6.99,"text":"All right, Christmas operator."},{"start":7.01,"end":8.05,"text":"Merry Christmas, Mr. President."},{"start":8.07,"end":8.69,"text":"Too bad you have to work today."},{"start":8.93,"end":11.02,"text":"Oh, that's all right."},{"start":11.04,"end":12.7,"text":"Get up later today, I suppose."},{"start":12.72,"end":13.78,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":13.8,"end":16.62,"text":"I'd like to place four or five calls."},{"start":16.66,"end":17.8,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":17.82,"end":19.77,"text":"Secretary Martin."},{"start":19.79,"end":21.85,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":23.63,"end":27.09,"text":"And Secretary Hart."},{"start":27.11,"end":27.39,"text":"Uh-huh."},{"start":27.94,"end":28.68,"text":"And Secretary Volpe."},{"start":28.7,"end":28.84,"text":"Volpe."},{"start":28.88,"end":29.04,"text":"Volpe."},{"start":29.06,"end":29.18,"text":"Volpe."},{"start":30.49,"end":46.98,"text":"That'll be enough to start, okay?"},{"start":47,"end":47.2,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator on Christmas morning to facilitate a series of official phone calls to members of his Cabinet. He requested to be connected specifically to Secretaries Rogers C. B. Morton, Clifford M. Hardin, John A. Volpe, George W. Romney, and Earl L. Butz. The exchange served as an administrative arrangement to initiate these holiday-period communications.","topics":["Presidential communications","Cabinet members","White House operations","Holiday schedule"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:47:09.093Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communications","cabinet-members","white-house-operations","holiday-schedule"],"audioDurationSec":49,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-060.mp3","bytes":1184286,"durationSec":49.28,"bitrate":192248,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-060.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-060","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-060","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}