{"conversationCode":"003-006","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-006","startDateTime":"1971-05-12T12:07:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-12T13:51:00.000Z","startDate":"12-May-1971","startTime":"8:07 AM","endDate":"12-May-1971","endTime":"9:51 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:07 am and 9:51 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-006 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 003-006\n\nDate: May 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:07 am and 9:51 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     George P. Shultz\n          -Location\n          -Return call\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["003-006.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:03:34","tapeEnd":"00:03:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"003-005","nextCode":"003-007","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.55,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":0.57,"end":2.34,"text":"Mr. President, Mr. Schultz is at a staff meeting."},{"start":2.36,"end":5.05,"text":"There's no phone there, but the secretary said you could go get him."},{"start":5.15,"end":5.58,"text":"No, no, no."},{"start":5.59,"end":6.28,"text":"He can call me back."},{"start":6.4,"end":7.12,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon communicated with a White House operator regarding an attempt to contact George P. Shultz. Upon learning that Shultz was in a staff meeting without immediate phone access, Nixon declined the offer to interrupt the meeting. The President instructed the operator to have Shultz return the call at a later time.","topics":["George P. Shultz","White House operations","Presidential scheduling","Communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:21:09.221Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","white-house-operations","presidential-scheduling","communication"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-006.mp3","bytes":98304,"durationSec":7.62,"bitrate":103215,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.591Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}