{"conversationCode":"017-096","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":96,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-096","startDateTime":"1971-12-25T16:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-25T17:44:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:55 AM","endDate":"25-Dec-1971","endTime":"12:44 PM","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 11:55 am and 12:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-096 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. 17-96\n\nDate: December 25, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:44 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["017-096.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:24:56","tapeEnd":"03:25:06","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-095","nextCode":"017-097","transcript":[{"start":0.35,"end":5.02,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."},{"start":5.04,"end":7.6,"text":"Mr. Colson, now you put him on our list too."},{"start":7.62,"end":8.6,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":8.62,"end":9.87,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. During this brief interaction, Nixon explicitly requested that Colson be added to a specific, unnamed list. This directive highlights the direct oversight Nixon maintained over his staff communications and internal administrative records.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Administrative tasking","Internal documentation"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:50:25.854Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","administrative-tasking","internal-documentation"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-096.mp3","bytes":236981,"durationSec":9.82,"bitrate":193031,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-096.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-096","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-096","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}