{"conversationCode":"017-124","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":124,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-124","startDateTime":"1972-01-01T15:29:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-01T15:57:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Jan-1972","startTime":"10:29 AM","endDate":"1-Jan-1972","endTime":"10:57 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:29 am and 10:57 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-124 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. 17-124\n\nDate: January 1, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:29 am and 10:57 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 311-13]\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["017-124.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:00:49","tapeEnd":"04:00:57","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-123","nextCode":"017-125","transcript":[{"start":0.08,"end":6.07,"text":"Please."},{"start":6.35,"end":8.66,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":8.68,"end":8.86,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request for the White House operator to place a telephone call to National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. This brief exchange serves as the administrative bridge to facilitate direct communication between the President and his advisor. No policy matters or substantive developments are discussed beyond the scheduling of the contact.","topics":["Henry A. Kissinger","White House operations","Communications","Scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:52:58.081Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-a-kissinger","white-house-operations","communications","scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-124.mp3","bytes":220681,"durationSec":9.13,"bitrate":193359,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.619Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-124.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-124","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-124","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}