{"conversationCode":"017-090","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":90,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-090","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T16:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T16:45:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:38 AM","endDate":"25-Dec-1971","endTime":"11:45 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 11:38 am and 11:45 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-090 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. 17-90\n\nDate: December 25, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:38 am and 11:45 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Melvin R. Larid","filename":["017-090.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:15:38","tapeEnd":"03:15:51","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-089","nextCode":"017-091","transcript":[{"start":8.79,"end":10.73,"text":"Try Secretary Laird now, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. The brief exchange served as a logistical step to initiate direct communication between the President and the Secretary on Christmas Day. No substantive policy matters were discussed during this brief connection request.","topics":["Melvin Laird","Department of Defense","Presidential communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:49:52.675Z"},"topicSlugs":["melvin-laird","department-of-defense","presidential-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-090.mp3","bytes":308452,"durationSec":12.79,"bitrate":193004,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.620Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-090.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-090","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-090","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}