{"conversationCode":"017-108","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":108,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-108","startDateTime":"1971-12-31T23:41:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-01T00:40:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Dec-1971","startTime":"6:41 PM","endDate":"31-Dec-1971","endTime":"7:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On December 31, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:41 pm and 7:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-108 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. 17-108\n\nDate: December 31, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:41 pm and 7:40 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Requested a call to Tricia Nixon Cox","filename":["017-108.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:41:44","tapeEnd":"03:41:50","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-107","nextCode":"017-109","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":4.3,"text":"Pressure, please."},{"start":4.36,"end":4.72,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a personal telephone call to his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox. This brief communication served solely as a request for the operator to connect the President to his family member on New Year's Eve. No substantive political or administrative matters were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Tricia Nixon Cox","Personal communication","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:51:31.468Z"},"topicSlugs":["tricia-nixon-cox","personal-communication","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-108.mp3","bytes":146702,"durationSec":6.05,"bitrate":193869,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-108.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-108","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-108","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}