{"conversationCode":"017-087","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":87,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-087","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T16:31:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T16:34:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:31 AM","endDate":"25-Dec-1971","endTime":"11:34 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 11:31 am and 11:34 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-087 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. 17-87\n\nDate: December 25, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:31 am and 11:34 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for calls to John C. Stennis, and Virginia H. Knauer","filename":["017-087.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:14:16","tapeEnd":"03:14:35","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-086","nextCode":"017-088","transcript":[{"start":4.94,"end":11.47,"text":"Operator, a couple of other calls."},{"start":11.49,"end":11.81,"text":"Senator Stennis."},{"start":11.83,"end":13.28,"text":"I'd like to talk to, and I'd like to talk to Mrs. Virginia Nauert."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place outgoing calls to Senator John C. Stennis and Virginia H. Knauer. The brief exchange served as a logistical request to facilitate these holiday communications. No substantive policy discussions took place during this brief administrative interaction.","topics":["White House communications","John C. Stennis","Virginia H. Knauer","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:49:36.540Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","john-c-stennis","virginia-h-knauer","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":19,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-087.mp3","bytes":457664,"durationSec":19.01,"bitrate":192565,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-087.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-087","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-087","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}