{"conversationCode":"017-168","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":168,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-168","startDateTime":"1972-01-03T05:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-03T05:30:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Jan-1972","startTime":"12:30 AM","endDate":"3-Jan-1972","endTime":"12:30 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 12:30 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-168 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. 17-168\n\nDate: January 3, 1972\nTime: 12:30 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["017-168.mp3"],"tapeStart":"06:24:36","tapeEnd":"06:24:50","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-167","nextCode":"017-169","transcript":[{"start":0.28,"end":5.06,"text":"Waiting."},{"start":5.72,"end":6.77,"text":"Dr. Kissinger, please."},{"start":6.97,"end":7.37,"text":"Thank you, sir."},{"start":7.39,"end":11.32,"text":"He returned your call incidentally, and I understood you had retired, but I'll get him for you, sir."},{"start":11.34,"end":11.54,"text":"Bye."},{"start":11.74,"end":12.29,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a late-night phone call through the White House operator to reach National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. The primary purpose of the contact was to facilitate an urgent discussion following Kissinger's prior return call. The interaction concludes with the operator confirming the attempt to locate and connect Kissinger to the President.","topics":["Henry Kissinger","White House communications","National security","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:57:05.604Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-kissinger","white-house-communications","national-security","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-168.mp3","bytes":318484,"durationSec":13.21,"bitrate":192907,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.937Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-168.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-168","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-168","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}