{"conversationCode":"006-194","tapeNumber":6,"conversationNumber":194,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-006-194","startDateTime":"1971-07-23T13:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-23T13:48:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jul-1971","startTime":"9:40 AM","endDate":"23-Jul-1971","endTime":"9:48 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Kissinger, Henry A.;","description":"On July 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 9:48 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-194 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. 6-194\n\nDate: July 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:40 am and 9:48 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator; Henry A. Kissinger can be heard in the\nbackground.\n\n[See Conversation No. 544-4A]\n\n     Call to Stewart J.O. Alsop","filename":["006-194.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:56:50","tapeEnd":"04:57:03","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","Kissinger, Henry A."],"prevCode":"006-193","nextCode":"006-195","transcript":[{"start":0.6,"end":4.58,"text":"I was over at the other room."},{"start":5.4,"end":6.38,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":6.46,"end":8.67,"text":"Mr. Alsop, Stuart Alsop, he's in the hospital."},{"start":8.75,"end":9.41,"text":"Do you have his number?"},{"start":9.81,"end":10.89,"text":"Okay."},{"start":10.97,"end":12.28,"text":"National Institute of Health."},{"start":12.6,"end":13.5,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Henry Kissinger coordinated a telephone call to journalist Stewart Alsop, who was currently hospitalized at the National Institute of Health. The participants sought to locate Alsop's direct contact information through the White House operator to facilitate the outreach. This brief exchange focused entirely on the logistics of reaching the ailing columnist.","topics":["Stewart Alsop","Press relations","Logistics","Journalism"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:23:39.980Z"},"topicSlugs":["stewart-alsop","press-relations","logistics","journalism"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"006-194.mp3","bytes":335721,"durationSec":13.89,"bitrate":193317,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.079Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/006-194.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-194","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/6/conversation-006-194","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}