{"conversationCode":"017-063","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":63,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-063","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T14:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T14:50:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Dec-1971","startTime":"9:45 AM","endDate":"25-Dec-1971","endTime":"9:50 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","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 from 9:45 am to 9:50 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-063 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. 17-63\n\nDate: December 25, 1971\nTime: 9:45 am - 9:50 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked to the White House operator.\n\n     Request for calls to William F. (“Billy”) Graham and Lyndon B. Johnson","filename":["017-063.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:43:52","tapeEnd":"02:44:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-062","nextCode":"017-064","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":16.02,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":20.12,"end":20.98,"text":"Operator, I wanted a couple of other calls."},{"start":21,"end":21.18,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":21.2,"end":21.57,"text":"President Johnson."},{"start":21.59,"end":21.79,"text":"All right."},{"start":21.81,"end":22.47,"text":"Let's see what time you have now."},{"start":22.49,"end":22.77,"text":"About 10 till."},{"start":22.79,"end":23.63,"text":"Yeah, that's all right."},{"start":23.65,"end":23.81,"text":"Anytime."},{"start":23.83,"end":24.03,"text":"All right."},{"start":24.05,"end":24.25,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate holiday courtesy calls to prominent public figures. He specifically requested to be connected with Reverend Billy Graham and former President Lyndon B. Johnson. The operator confirmed the requests, and the President verified that the timing was appropriate for these communications.","topics":["Lyndon B. Johnson","Billy Graham","Holiday greetings","Presidential communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:47:26.013Z"},"topicSlugs":["lyndon-b-johnson","billy-graham","holiday-greetings","presidential-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":28,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-063.mp3","bytes":665808,"durationSec":27.67,"bitrate":192482,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-063.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-063","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-063","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}