{"conversationCode":"279-017","tapeNumber":279,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-279-017","startDateTime":"1971-09-22T17:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-22T18:37:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Sep-1971","startTime":"1:50 PM","endDate":"22-Sep-1971","endTime":"2:37 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On September 22, 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 1:50 pm and 2:37 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 279-017 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 279-17\n\nDate: September 22, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:37 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 9-117]","filename":["279-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:33:34","tapeEnd":"02:33:37","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"279-016","nextCode":"279-018","transcript":[{"start":0.05,"end":2.58,"text":"Good morning, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief request for the White House operator to place an outgoing call. The conversation is administrative in nature, focusing solely on connecting the President to an external party. No substantive policy discussions or significant political developments occur during this brief interaction.","topics":["White House communications","administrative operations","telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:03:18.914Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","administrative-operations","telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"279-017.mp3","bytes":122060,"durationSec":2.91,"bitrate":335560,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.329Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/279-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/279-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/279/conversation-279-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}