{"conversationCode":"658-017","tapeNumber":658,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-658-017","startDateTime":"1972-01-27T19:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-27T19:20:00.000Z","startDate":"27-Jan-1972","startTime":"2:20 PM","endDate":"27-Jan-1972","endTime":"2:20 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On January 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 2:20 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 658-017 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 658-17\n\nDate: January 27, 1972\nTime: 2:20 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 19-136]\n\n     George Meany’s schedule\n         -Request for a return call","filename":["658a.mp3","658b.mp3","658c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:16:39","tapeEnd":"04:17:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"658-016","nextCode":"658-018","tapeTranscriptFile":"658a.mp3,658b.mp3,658c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":15410.59,"end":15422.74,"text":"We bring, of course, here, to our channel, the Chinese Jerusalem channel, well, so there, we're, so that, we're going down that road as hard as we can."},{"start":15423.82,"end":15426.88,"text":"But not putting them on the public spot."},{"start":15427.04,"end":15431.66,"text":"Because if we ever said we were doing it publicly, you know, some of our colleagues, they don't know any better."},{"start":15431.68,"end":15432.8,"text":"They say, well, why?"},{"start":15432.84,"end":15435.56,"text":"Why don't you say you're doing it with some Chinese friend?"},{"start":15435.58,"end":15441.11,"text":"The moment you do that, they teach their guys to explain that we're polluting with the other thing, you know."},{"start":15441.77,"end":15442.15,"text":"That's it."},{"start":15443.23,"end":15443.53,"text":"Right."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":15410.125,"end":15444.125,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to facilitate communication regarding George Meany's schedule. The brief interaction focused on organizing a return call to the labor leader. The conversation underscores the administrative coordination required to manage high-level external relationships during the President's term.","topics":["George Meany","Labor relations","Scheduling","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:02:43.397Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-meany","labor-relations","scheduling","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":46,"audioFiles":[{"file":"658a.mp3","bytes":176525269,"durationSec":7355.15,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"658b.mp3","bytes":176480756,"durationSec":7353.3,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"658c.mp3","bytes":137629360,"durationSec":5734.5,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.663Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/658a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/658b.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/658c.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/658-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/658/conversation-658-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}