{"conversationCode":"017-106","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":106,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-106","startDateTime":"1971-12-26T18:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-26T19:34:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:45 PM","endDate":"26-Dec-1971","endTime":"2:34 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 1:45 pm and 2:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-106 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. 17-106\n\nDate: December 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:34 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to William P. Rogers","filename":["017-106.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:41:13","tapeEnd":"03:41:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-105","nextCode":"017-107","transcript":[{"start":1.77,"end":2.95,"text":"Terry Rogers now, please."},{"start":2.97,"end":3.6,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers. This brief exchange served solely as a procedural request to facilitate communication between the President and his cabinet official. No substantive policy discussions or decisions were recorded during this brief interaction.","topics":["William P. Rogers","Communication","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:51:20.703Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","communication","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-106.mp3","bytes":96547,"durationSec":3.95,"bitrate":195448,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-106.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-106","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-106","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}