{"conversationCode":"250-006","tapeNumber":250,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-250-006","startDateTime":"1971-04-16T15:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-16T16:06:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1971","startTime":"10:30 AM","endDate":"16-Apr-1971","endTime":"11:06 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 11:06 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 250-006 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 250-6\n\nDate: April 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:30 am and 11:06 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n[See Conversation No. 42-53]","filename":["250-006.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:41:02","tapeEnd":"01:41:38","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"250-005","nextCode":"250-007","transcript":[{"start":3.71,"end":4.39,"text":"Hello, Bertie."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a brief, informal check-in with the White House operator, addressed as Bertie, to facilitate outgoing communications. The exchange serves as a routine administrative interaction typical of the President’s daily management of telephone access. No substantive policy discussions or significant decisions occur during this brief contact.","topics":["White House operations","Presidential communications","administrative staff","telephone access"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:41:21.711Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","presidential-communications","administrative-staff","telephone-access"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"250-006.mp3","bytes":285965,"durationSec":7.02,"bitrate":326010,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/250-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/250-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/250/conversation-250-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}