{"conversationCode":"017-118","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":118,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-118","startDateTime":"1972-01-01T02:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-01T02:13:00.000Z","startDate":"31-Dec-1971","startTime":"9:11 PM","endDate":"31-Dec-1971","endTime":"9:13 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 9:11 pm and 9:13 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-118 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. 17-118\n\nDate: December 31, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:11 pm and 9:13 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 311-4]\n\n     Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods","filename":["017-118.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:56:46","tapeEnd":"03:56:53","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-117","nextCode":"017-119","transcript":[{"start":2.85,"end":4.65,"text":"Could I get Miss Woods, please?"},{"start":4.67,"end":5.32,"text":"Surely."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief telephone call to his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, on New Year's Eve. The President requested that the White House operator connect him to Woods to facilitate private communication. This exchange served as a routine administrative request to reach a key member of his staff.","topics":["Rose Mary Woods","Presidential communications","Administrative logistics","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:52:25.453Z"},"topicSlugs":["rose-mary-woods","presidential-communications","administrative-logistics","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-118.mp3","bytes":163003,"durationSec":6.73,"bitrate":193715,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-118.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-118","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-118","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}