{"conversationCode":"017-136","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":136,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-136","startDateTime":"1972-01-02T15:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-02T15:27:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1972","startTime":"10:17 AM","endDate":"2-Jan-1972","endTime":"10:27 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:17 am and 10:27 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-136 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. 17-136\n\nDate: January 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:17 am and 10:27 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 311-32]\n\n     Request for a call to Patrick Buchanan","filename":["017-136.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:59:49","tapeEnd":"04:59:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-135","nextCode":"017-137","transcript":[{"start":2.16,"end":5.16,"text":"Mr. Buchanan, please."},{"start":5.67,"end":6.62,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to his advisor, Patrick Buchanan. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to initiate a conversation with a key member of the White House staff. No further substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange.","topics":["Patrick Buchanan","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:54:04.656Z"},"topicSlugs":["patrick-buchanan","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-136.mp3","bytes":213158,"durationSec":8.83,"bitrate":193193,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-136.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-136","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-136","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}