{"conversationCode":"017-071","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":71,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-071","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T15:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T15:29:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Dec-1971","startTime":"10:16 AM","endDate":"25-Dec-1971","endTime":"10:29 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 10:16 am and 10:29 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-071 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. 17-71\n\nDate: December 25, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:16 am and 10:29 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for calls to Winton M. (“Red”) Blount and Arthur E. Summerfield\n\n     Status of call to Clifford M. Hardin","filename":["017-071.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:54:47","tapeEnd":"02:55:17","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-070","nextCode":"017-072","transcript":[{"start":0.39,"end":17.3,"text":"Yes sir?"},{"start":17.32,"end":18.58,"text":"Red Blunt, he's probably in Alabama, former postmaster general."},{"start":18.6,"end":18.76,"text":"Yes sir?"},{"start":18.78,"end":25.81,"text":"And Hart Summerfield, also former postmaster general, he's probably up in Michigan."},{"start":25.83,"end":27.12,"text":"All right, and I'm not getting an answer on Mr. Clifford Hardin."},{"start":27.14,"end":27.5,"text":"That's all right."},{"start":29,"end":29.68,"text":"If you don't get him, that's okay."},{"start":29.7,"end":29.9,"text":"All right."},{"start":29.92,"end":30.12,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place holiday calls to two former Postmasters General, Winton M. Blount and Arthur E. Summerfield, at their respective homes in Alabama and Michigan. During the exchange, the operator noted difficulty reaching Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin. Nixon dismissed the need to continue pursuing the call to Hardin, effectively closing that specific task.","topics":["White House operations","Presidential communications","Winton M. Blount","Arthur E. Summerfield","Clifford M. Hardin"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:48:09.552Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","presidential-communications","winton-m-blount","arthur-e-summerfield","clifford-m-hardin"],"audioDurationSec":30,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-071.mp3","bytes":723486,"durationSec":30.08,"bitrate":192389,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-071.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-071","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-071","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}