{"conversationCode":"017-099","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":99,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-099","startDateTime":"1971-12-26T16:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-26T16:45:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:30 AM","endDate":"26-Dec-1971","endTime":"11:45 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:30 am and 11:45 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-099 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. 17-99\n\nDate: December 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:30 am and 11:45 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 310-23]\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["017-099.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:29:53","tapeEnd":"03:30:06","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-098","nextCode":"017-100","transcript":[{"start":8.1,"end":10.03,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":10.11,"end":11.63,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request for the White House operator to place a telephone call to National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. This brief administrative interaction serves as a bridge to a subsequent substantive discussion between the President and his advisor. No policy deliberations occur during this segment, as it is limited strictly to the logistics of establishing communication.","topics":["Henry A. Kissinger","White House operations","Presidential communication","National security"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:50:42.075Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-a-kissinger","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","national-security"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-099.mp3","bytes":307199,"durationSec":12.74,"bitrate":192951,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-099.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-099","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-099","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}