{"conversationCode":"017-149","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":149,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-149","startDateTime":"1972-01-02T21:07:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-02T23:35:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1972","startTime":"4:07 PM","endDate":"2-Jan-1972","endTime":"6:35 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 4:07 pm and 6:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-149 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. 17-149\n\nDate: January 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:07 pm and 6:35 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 311-53]\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["017-149.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:46:21","tapeEnd":"05:46:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-148","nextCode":"017-150","transcript":[{"start":2.7,"end":3.32,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.59,"end":5.64,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":5.68,"end":6.83,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a direct phone call to his National Security Advisor, Henry A. Kissinger. This brief administrative exchange served solely as a logistical request to initiate communication with Kissinger. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this interaction.","topics":["Henry A. Kissinger","White House operations","Communications","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:55:20.489Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-a-kissinger","white-house-operations","communications","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-149.mp3","bytes":197484,"durationSec":8.15,"bitrate":193733,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-149.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-149","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-149","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}