{"conversationCode":"202-006","tapeNumber":202,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-202-006","startDateTime":"1972-08-14T22:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-16T00:17:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Aug-1972","startTime":"6:05 PM","endDate":"15-Aug-1972","endTime":"8:17 PM","dateCertainty":"estimated","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sievers, Roy Edward;","description":"President Richard M. Nixon and Roy Edward Sievers met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 6:05 pm on August 14, 1972 and 8:17 pm on August 15, 1972. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 202-006 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"CDHW","recordingDevice":"Camp David Hard Wire","latitudeEstimated":39.648333,"longitudeEstimated":-77.465,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 202-6\n\nDate: Unknown between August 14 and 15, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 6:05 pm, August 14, 1972 and 8:17 pm, August 15, 1972\nLocation: Camp David Hard Wire\n\nThe President dictated a letter to Roy Edward Sievers.\n\n      Washington Star article\n          -Washington Senators\n               -Sievers's career\n                     -1957 photograph with the President\n                     -The President's appreciation and regards","filename":["202-006.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sievers, Roy Edward"],"prevCode":"202-005","nextCode":"202-007","transcript":[{"start":25.12,"end":44.39,"text":"or baseball career with the Senators."},{"start":48.11,"end":54.02,"text":"I could buy a photograph taken in 1957."},{"start":55.8,"end":75.75,"text":"I would certainly disagree."},{"start":80.03,"end":81.15,"text":"Sorry."},{"start":93.35,"end":102.19,"text":"There it is."},{"start":102.21,"end":102.64,"text":"On and off the field."},{"start":102.66,"end":102.88,"text":"Number one."},{"start":107.01,"end":107.53,"text":"Then and now."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with former professional baseball player Roy Edward Sievers at Camp David to dictate a personal letter of appreciation. The President reflected on Sievers's career with the Washington Senators and discussed a specific photograph of the two men taken in 1957. This interaction served as a gesture of personal regard, highlighting Nixon's interest in maintaining connections with public figures outside of the political sphere.","topics":["Roy Edward Sievers","Washington Senators","Baseball","Correspondence","Presidential relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T10:13:56.964Z"},"topicSlugs":["roy-edward-sievers","washington-senators","baseball","correspondence","presidential-relations"],"audioDurationSec":117,"audioFiles":[{"file":"202-006.mp3","bytes":2806804,"durationSec":116.88,"bitrate":192115,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:35.864Z","transcriptGapSeconds":39,"transcriptGapShare":0.34,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/202-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/202-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/202/conversation-202-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}