{"conversationCode":"006-096","tapeNumber":6,"conversationNumber":96,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-006-096","startDateTime":"1971-07-02T20:26:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-02T20:26:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jul-1971","startTime":"4:26 PM","endDate":"2-Jul-1971","endTime":"4:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On July 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-096 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. 6-96\n\nDate: July 2, 1971\nTime: 4:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 260-11]\n\n     Call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon","filename":["006-096.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:01:25","tapeEnd":"02:01:32","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"006-095","nextCode":"006-097","transcript":[{"start":2.17,"end":3.17,"text":"please."},{"start":3.19,"end":4.78,"text":"Mrs. Nixon, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator connect him to First Lady Pat Nixon. The brief interaction served as a formal bridge to facilitate a private communication between the President and his wife. No substantive policy discussions or administrative actions occurred during this connection process.","topics":["Pat Nixon","White House operations","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:14:24.163Z"},"topicSlugs":["pat-nixon","white-house-operations","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"006-096.mp3","bytes":158920,"durationSec":6.53,"bitrate":194675,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.079Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/006-096.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-096","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/6/conversation-006-096","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}