{"conversationCode":"006-154","tapeNumber":6,"conversationNumber":154,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-006-154","startDateTime":"1971-07-06T01:13:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-06T02:39:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Jul-1971","startTime":"9:13 PM","endDate":"5-Jul-1971","endTime":"10:39 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 9:13 pm and 10:39 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-154 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. 6-154\n\nDate: July 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:13 pm and 10:39 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["006-154.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:14:10","tapeEnd":"03:14:16","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"006-153","nextCode":"006-155","transcript":[{"start":1.16,"end":3.1,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.14,"end":3.91,"text":"Mr. Haldeman, please."},{"start":3.97,"end":4.84,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief administrative interaction served as the necessary bridge to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and his key aide. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this connection attempt.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Presidential communication","Administration management"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:19:35.408Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","administration-management"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"006-154.mp3","bytes":140741,"durationSec":5.76,"bitrate":195367,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.079Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/006-154.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-154","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/6/conversation-006-154","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}