{"conversationCode":"017-138","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":138,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-138","startDateTime":"1972-01-02T15:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-02T17:12:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1972","startTime":"10:34 AM","endDate":"2-Jan-1972","endTime":"12:12 PM","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 10:34 am and 12:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-138 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. 17-138\n\nDate: January 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:34 am and 12:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 311-36]\n\n     Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["017-138.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:06:01","tapeEnd":"05:06:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-137","nextCode":"017-139","transcript":[{"start":4.74,"end":6.97,"text":"Mr. Haldeman, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. The brief exchange served solely as a logistical request to connect with the aide. No further policy or administrative matters were discussed during this interaction.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House communications","administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:54:18.801Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-communications","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-138.mp3","bytes":186826,"durationSec":7.71,"bitrate":193735,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-138.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-138","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-138","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}