{"conversationCode":"017-159","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":159,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-159","startDateTime":"1972-01-03T04:28:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-03T04:30:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1972","startTime":"11:28 PM","endDate":"2-Jan-1972","endTime":"11:30 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 11:28 pm and 11:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-159 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. 17-159\n\nDate: January 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 11:28 and 11:30 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to William P. Rogers","filename":["017-159.mp3"],"tapeStart":"06:11:17","tapeEnd":"06:11:24","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-158","nextCode":"017-160","transcript":[{"start":0.25,"end":6.48,"text":"I told Rogers, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a request for the White House operator to place a telephone call to Secretary of State William P. Rogers. This brief communication serves as a logistical directive to establish contact with his primary foreign policy advisor. No further substantive discussion occurs during this short exchange.","topics":["William P. Rogers","Foreign Policy","White House Communications","Presidential Directives"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:56:17.398Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","foreign-policy","white-house-communications","presidential-directives"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-159.mp3","bytes":156106,"durationSec":6.44,"bitrate":193934,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-159.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-159","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-159","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}