{"conversationCode":"017-101","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":101,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-101","startDateTime":"1971-12-26T16:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-26T17:12:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:52 AM","endDate":"26-Dec-1971","endTime":"12:12 PM","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 11:52 am and 12:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-101 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. 17-101\n\nDate: December 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:52 am and 12:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 310-27]\n\n     Request for a call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer","filename":["017-101.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:36:28","tapeEnd":"03:36:35","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-100","nextCode":"017-102","transcript":[{"start":1.57,"end":3.62,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.65,"end":4.66,"text":"Admiral Moore, please."},{"start":5.04,"end":5.7,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief request for the White House operator to connect him with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This administrative interaction serves as a precursor to a formal consultation between the President and the nation's top military official. No substantive policy discussions occur during this brief call-placement sequence.","topics":["Thomas H. Moorer","Joint Chiefs of Staff","White House communications","military coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:50:52.781Z"},"topicSlugs":["thomas-h-moorer","joint-chiefs-of-staff","white-house-communications","military-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-101.mp3","bytes":168645,"durationSec":6.95,"bitrate":193999,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-101.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-101","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-101","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}