{"conversationCode":"017-066","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":66,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-066","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T14:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T15:01:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Dec-1971","startTime":"9:58 AM","endDate":"25-Dec-1971","endTime":"10:01 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 9:58 am and 10:01 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-066 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. 17-66\n\nDate: December 25, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:01 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for calls to Frank B. Rackley and Robert K. Gray","filename":["017-066.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:48:37","tapeEnd":"02:48:57","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-065","nextCode":"017-067","transcript":[{"start":2.8,"end":4.02,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.04,"end":6.63,"text":"Operator, I have a couple of other calls."},{"start":6.65,"end":15.48,"text":"Mr. Frank Rackley in Washington, Pennsylvania, and Mr. Robert Gray, who was the former secretary to the cabinet in Eisenhower's administration."},{"start":15.5,"end":16.08,"text":"He's here in Washington."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place outgoing telephone calls to Frank B. Rackley in Washington, Pennsylvania, and Robert K. Gray, a former Eisenhower administration official. The primary purpose of the brief interaction was to facilitate these personal or professional communications on Christmas Day. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this logistics-focused exchange.","topics":["White House communications","Frank B. Rackley","Robert K. Gray","Presidential scheduling","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:47:43.101Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","frank-b-rackley","robert-k-gray","presidential-scheduling","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":20,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-066.mp3","bytes":484622,"durationSec":20.13,"bitrate":192624,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-066.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-066","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-066","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}