{"conversationCode":"017-161","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":161,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-161","startDateTime":"1972-01-03T04:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-03T04:35:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1972","startTime":"11:35 PM","endDate":"2-Jan-1972","endTime":"11:35 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 11:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-161 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. 17-161\n\nDate: January 2, 1972\nTime: 11:35 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["017-161.mp3"],"tapeStart":"06:16:06","tapeEnd":"06:16:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-160","nextCode":"017-162","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":7.04,"text":"Get close, get close."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate an immediate telephone connection with special counsel Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served as a logistical step to initiate a direct line of communication between the President and his aide late at night. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief request for the operator's assistance.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:56:28.218Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-161.mp3","bytes":216292,"durationSec":8.95,"bitrate":193395,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-161.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-161","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/017/conversation-017-161","catalogNaId":417192081,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417192081","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}