{"conversationCode":"017-111","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":111,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-111","startDateTime":"1972-01-01T00:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-01T00:55:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Dec-1971","startTime":"7:49 PM","endDate":"31-Dec-1971","endTime":"7:55 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 7:49 pm and 7:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-111 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. 17-111\n\nDate: December 31, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 7:49 pm and 7:55 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to C. Arnholt Smith","filename":["017-111.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:48:54","tapeEnd":"03:49:03","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-110","nextCode":"017-112","transcript":[{"start":0.23,"end":6.9,"text":"Could you get me Mr. Arnholdt Smith in San Diego, please?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to businessman C. Arnholt Smith in San Diego. The brief exchange served solely to facilitate this communication connection. No further substantive policy matters or decisions were discussed during this brief interaction.","topics":["C. Arnholt Smith","San Diego","Telecommunications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:51:47.336Z"},"topicSlugs":["c-arnholt-smith","san-diego","telecommunications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-111.mp3","bytes":236981,"durationSec":9.82,"bitrate":193031,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-111.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-111","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-111","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}