{"conversationCode":"248-017","tapeNumber":248,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-248-017","startDateTime":"1971-04-14T22:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-14T22:26:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Apr-1971","startTime":"5:10 PM","endDate":"14-Apr-1971","endTime":"5:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 248-017 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 248-17\n\nDate: April 14, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n[See Conversation No. 42-39]","filename":["248-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:12:33","tapeEnd":"01:12:38","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"248-016","nextCode":"248-018","transcript":[{"start":2.1,"end":4.42,"text":"There it is."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate an outgoing connection. The brief exchange focused exclusively on the mechanics of establishing a phone call. No substantive policy matters or significant executive decisions were addressed during this interaction.","topics":["Telecommunications","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:37:37.893Z"},"topicSlugs":["telecommunications","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"248-017.mp3","bytes":206553,"durationSec":5.02,"bitrate":328860,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/248-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/248-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/248/conversation-248-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}