{"conversationCode":"017-131","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":131,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-131","startDateTime":"1972-01-01T19:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-01T20:56:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Jan-1972","startTime":"2:43 PM","endDate":"1-Jan-1972","endTime":"3:56 PM","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 2:43 pm and 3:56 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-131 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. 17-131\n\nDate: January 1, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:43 pm and 3:56 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 311-22]\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["017-131.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:39:36","tapeEnd":"04:39:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-130","nextCode":"017-132","transcript":[{"start":2.63,"end":4.13,"text":"Dr. Kessinger, please."},{"start":4.16,"end":5.03,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to contact his National Security Advisor, Henry A. Kissinger. The exchange serves solely as a logistical request to establish communication with Kissinger. No substantive policy discussions or further actions are recorded during this brief connection.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House communications","logistics","Presidential operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:53:36.810Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-communications","logistics","presidential-operations"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-131.mp3","bytes":161749,"durationSec":6.68,"bitrate":193602,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-131.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-131","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-131","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}