{"conversationCode":"017-155","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":155,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-155","startDateTime":"1972-01-03T04:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-03T04:12:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1972","startTime":"11:12 PM","endDate":"2-Jan-1972","endTime":"11:12 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","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 11:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-155 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. 17-155\n\nDate: January 2, 1972\nTime: 11:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["017-155.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:56:35","tapeEnd":"05:56:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-154","nextCode":"017-156","transcript":[{"start":3.68,"end":4.87,"text":"Holloman, please."},{"start":4.89,"end":7.49,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and his top aide late in the evening. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief exchange.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:55:54.440Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-155.mp3","bytes":181184,"durationSec":7.48,"bitrate":193701,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-155.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-155","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-155","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}