{"conversationCode":"006-118","tapeNumber":6,"conversationNumber":118,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-006-118","startDateTime":"1971-07-03T12:28:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-03T13:01:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Jul-1971","startTime":"8:28 AM","endDate":"3-Jul-1971","endTime":"9:01 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On July 3, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 8:28 am to 9:01 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-118 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. 6-118\n\nDate: July 3, 1971\nTime: 8:58 am - 9:01 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 536-7]\n\n     Congressman Harold D. Donohue's location\n\nThe President talked with the nurse in charge of intensive care unit of Massachusetts General\nHospital at an unknown time.\n\n     President's get-well wishes for Donohue\n           -The President's service with Donohue in the US Navy and in Congress","filename":["006-118.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:25:20","tapeEnd":"02:26:19","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"006-117","nextCode":"006-119","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.35,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.39,"end":4.52,"text":"Mr. President, Congressman Donahue is in the intensive care unit."},{"start":4.62,"end":6.86,"text":"Now, I have a nurse that's working with him."},{"start":6.88,"end":8.38,"text":"I'll just talk to him."},{"start":8.56,"end":21.83,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":22.25,"end":22.59,"text":"Hello."},{"start":22.65,"end":23.97,"text":"Nurse in charge, Mr. President."},{"start":25.33,"end":25.41,"text":"Yes."},{"start":25.66,"end":26.95,"text":"Yes, Mr. President?"},{"start":26.97,"end":27.15,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":27.49,"end":29.21,"text":"Yes, this is the nurse in charge of the unit."},{"start":29.23,"end":29.89,"text":"May I help you?"},{"start":29.91,"end":30.64,"text":"Yes, how are you?"},{"start":31.1,"end":31.94,"text":"Fine, thank you."},{"start":31.96,"end":36.97,"text":"When you get to have a chance to see the congressman, you tell him that I called to just wish him well."},{"start":37.47,"end":38.39,"text":"Oh, thank you very much."},{"start":38.47,"end":42.14,"text":"He and I were in the Navy together many years ago, before you were born, perhaps."},{"start":42.6,"end":45.43,"text":"And back in 1942..."},{"start":46.05,"end":52.09,"text":"Two, and he's a very old friend, and we served in Congress together when he first came, and I hope he's doing all right."},{"start":52.47,"end":53.13,"text":"Okay."},{"start":53.65,"end":55.36,"text":"Well, thank you very much for your concern."},{"start":55.4,"end":56.52,"text":"You give him our best wishes."},{"start":56.78,"end":57.92,"text":"I certainly will."},{"start":58.16,"end":58.33,"text":"Bye-bye."},{"start":58.35,"end":58.51,"text":"Bye-bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital to relay get-well wishes to Congressman Harold D. Donohue. During the brief call with the nurse in charge, Nixon reflected on his long-standing personal history with Donohue, noting their shared service in the U.S. Navy during World War II and their subsequent tenure together in Congress. The call served as a personal gesture of concern for a political colleague and old friend undergoing medical treatment.","topics":["Harold D. Donohue","Massachusetts General Hospital","Get-well wishes","Navy service","Congressional relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:16:24.842Z"},"topicSlugs":["harold-d-donohue","massachusetts-general-hospital","get-well-wishes","navy-service","congressional-relations"],"audioDurationSec":59,"audioFiles":[{"file":"006-118.mp3","bytes":1415936,"durationSec":58.9,"bitrate":192318,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.079Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/006-118.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-118","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/6/conversation-006-118","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}