{"conversationCode":"017-110","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":110,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-110","startDateTime":"1972-01-01T00:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-01T00:49:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Dec-1971","startTime":"7:47 PM","endDate":"31-Dec-1971","endTime":"7:49 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Schreiber, Taft;","description":"On December 31, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Taft Schreiber talked on the telephone from 7:47 pm to 7:49 pm. 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(President)","Schreiber, Taft"],"prevCode":"017-109","nextCode":"017-111","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":2.58,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.6,"end":3.57,"text":"I have Mr. Tash Schreiber returning."},{"start":3.59,"end":3.81,"text":"Okay."},{"start":6.27,"end":7.63,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":7.65,"end":7.93,"text":"There you are."},{"start":7.95,"end":8.07,"text":"Hello."},{"start":8.09,"end":8.51,"text":"Hello, Mr. President."},{"start":8.53,"end":10.56,"text":"Just called to wish you a happy new year, nothing else."},{"start":12.46,"end":16.87,"text":"You're very sweet, and I..."},{"start":16.89,"end":17.51,"text":"I hope everything's going well."},{"start":17.53,"end":17.83,"text":"Yes, very well."},{"start":17.85,"end":19.69,"text":"Sure, and I just want to wish you and your wonderful family a great year, and I hope that..."},{"start":20.67,"end":27.18,"text":"72 is all we do hope for, and I really believe that our country is very fortunate today."},{"start":27.2,"end":38.43,"text":"Let's just hope it's a good year for the country, and then however it comes out, we'll all accept it."},{"start":38.45,"end":41.55,"text":"Well, that's true, and I do believe that it bears repeating that you've just been the greatest, and we're just all fortunate."},{"start":41.58,"end":48.78,"text":"Well, I know what you've been doing, and I don't call you very often, but I do know and I do appreciate it very, very much."},{"start":48.8,"end":49.55,"text":"We appreciate that you're doing this."},{"start":50.06,"end":52.73,"text":"because let's have a great New Year."},{"start":52.75,"end":53.73,"text":"Right, right."},{"start":53.81,"end":55.99,"text":"Well, what are you going to do tonight?"},{"start":56.19,"end":62.78,"text":"I'm here in the White House and sitting in the Lincoln Room studying for a program I'm going to do with Dan Rather Sunday night."},{"start":62.8,"end":65.22,"text":"And so that's my New Year's Eve."},{"start":65.26,"end":67.74,"text":"What are you going to do?"},{"start":67.76,"end":70.09,"text":"I'm going down to the Music Center and I'm going to one of your old friends down here, Ted Cummings."},{"start":70.11,"end":70.45,"text":"Great."},{"start":71.41,"end":72.35,"text":"Give him my best."},{"start":72.39,"end":76.29,"text":"He's a wonderful guy and he's got the marvelous collection of art in his house."},{"start":76.31,"end":76.61,"text":"Yes, I know."},{"start":77.71,"end":84.81,"text":"Well, we've been just taking it easy these last two days."},{"start":84.83,"end":85.03,"text":"All right."},{"start":85.05,"end":85.83,"text":"We're going to work."},{"start":85.85,"end":88.16,"text":"We've been working, but we're going to give it all we've got."},{"start":88.18,"end":88.58,"text":"Right."},{"start":88.6,"end":92.53,"text":"Well, we do appreciate good friends at a time like this, believe me."},{"start":92.55,"end":96.34,"text":"And tell Ted and his wife that I sent my best to my old neighbors."},{"start":97.14,"end":98.23,"text":"I will tell them."},{"start":98.25,"end":98.35,"text":"Okay."},{"start":98.37,"end":99.95,"text":"Thank you, sir."},{"start":99.97,"end":100.05,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Taft Schreiber exchanged New Year's greetings and expressed mutual optimism for the country in 1972. Nixon noted that he was spending the evening at the White House preparing for an upcoming televised interview with Dan Rather. Schreiber shared his own plans to visit mutual friend Theodore E. Cummings, prompting Nixon to send his regards to Cummings and his wife.","topics":["New Year's Eve","Dan Rather","Theodore E. Cummings","Presidential scheduling","Personal relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:51:42.184Z"},"topicSlugs":["new-years-eve","dan-rather","theodore-e-cummings","presidential-scheduling","personal-relations"],"audioDurationSec":100,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-110.mp3","bytes":2401801,"durationSec":100.01,"bitrate":192132,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-110.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-110","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-110","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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