{"conversationCode":"017-074","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":74,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-074","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T15:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T15:53:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Dec-1971","startTime":"10:38 AM","endDate":"25-Dec-1971","endTime":"10:53 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 10:38 am and 10:53 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-074 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. 17-74\n\nDate: December 25, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:38 am and 10:53 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Warren E. Burger","filename":["017-074.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:59:49","tapeEnd":"02:59:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-073","nextCode":"017-075","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":8.72,"text":"Chief Justice Berger."},{"start":8.74,"end":8.84,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":8.86,"end":9.06,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. This brief exchange served solely as a logistical request to facilitate direct communication between the President and the Chief Justice on Christmas Day. No substantive policy matters or further developments were discussed during this brief connection.","topics":["Warren E. Burger","Supreme Court","Logistics","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:48:25.534Z"},"topicSlugs":["warren-e-burger","supreme-court","logistics","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-074.mp3","bytes":218173,"durationSec":9.03,"bitrate":193347,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-074.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-074","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-074","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}