{"conversationCode":"006-142","tapeNumber":6,"conversationNumber":142,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-006-142","startDateTime":"1971-07-05T22:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-05T23:21:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Jul-1971","startTime":"6:16 PM","endDate":"5-Jul-1971","endTime":"7:21 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On July 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:16 pm and 7:21 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-142 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. 6-142\n\nDate: July 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:15 pm and 7:21 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["006-142.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:53:03","tapeEnd":"02:53:11","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"006-141","nextCode":"006-143","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":7.07,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":7.09,"end":7.29,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief administrative interaction served exclusively as a logistical step to bridge communication between the President and his senior aide. No further substantive policy matters or tactical decisions were discussed during this exchange.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:18:31.825Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"006-142.mp3","bytes":176476,"durationSec":7.25,"bitrate":194660,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.079Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/006-142.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-142","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/6/conversation-006-142","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}