{"conversationCode":"036-017","tapeNumber":36,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-036-017","startDateTime":"1973-01-20T06:03:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-20T06:04:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jan-1973","startTime":"1:03 AM","endDate":"20-Jan-1973","endTime":"1:04 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:03 am and 1:04 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 036-017 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 36-17\n\nDate: January 20, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 1:03 am and 1:04 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n       Request for a telephone call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["036-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"036-016","nextCode":"036-018","transcript":[{"start":1.82,"end":9.12,"text":"Mr. Colson, please."},{"start":9.94,"end":11.2,"text":"Mr. Colson, please."},{"start":11.32,"end":12.36,"text":"Mr. Colson, thank you."},{"start":12.38,"end":15.73,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate an urgent telephone call to Charles W. Colson. The brief exchange served solely to request that the operator connect the President to Colson. No further discussion or substantive policy matters were addressed during this short interaction.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:56:39.448Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"036-017.mp3","bytes":495543,"durationSec":20.52,"bitrate":193194,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.542Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/036-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/036-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/36/conversation-036-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}