{"conversationCode":"006-171","tapeNumber":6,"conversationNumber":171,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-006-171","startDateTime":"1971-07-21T14:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-21T18:39:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Jul-1971","startTime":"10:05 AM","endDate":"21-Jul-1971","endTime":"2:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On July 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 2:39 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-171 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. 6-171\n\nDate: July 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:05 am and 2:39 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 264-9]\n\n     Call to Haakon Ingolf Romnes","filename":["006-171.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:02:33","tapeEnd":"04:02:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"006-170","nextCode":"006-172","transcript":[{"start":2.81,"end":3.22,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":3.24,"end":10.53,"text":"Could you get me Mr. High Romnes, R-O-M-N-E-S, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, please?"},{"start":10.89,"end":11.95,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."},{"start":11.97,"end":12.13,"text":"Welcome."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a personal telephone call to Haakon Ingolf Romnes, the Chairman of the Board of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). This request served as a preliminary administrative step to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and the telecommunications executive. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief request.","topics":["AT&T","Haakon Ingolf Romnes","Telecommunications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:21:05.642Z"},"topicSlugs":["at-and-t","haakon-ingolf-romnes","telecommunications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"006-171.mp3","bytes":323807,"durationSec":13.41,"bitrate":193201,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.079Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/006-171.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-171","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/6/conversation-006-171","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}