{"conversationCode":"269-006","tapeNumber":269,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-269-006","startDateTime":"1971-08-03T02:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-03T02:46:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Aug-1971","startTime":"10:02 PM","endDate":"2-Aug-1971","endTime":"10:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On August 2, 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 10:02 pm and 10:46 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 269-006 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 269-6\n\nDate: August 2, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:02 pm and 10:46 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["269-006-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:24:36","tapeEnd":"01:24:55","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"269-005","nextCode":"269-007","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon utilized the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. The interaction served as a logistical bridge to facilitate a direct line of communication between the President and his advisor during a late-evening window. No further substantive policy discussions were recorded during this brief administrative exchange.","topics":["Henry A. Kissinger","White House operations","telecommunications","presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:30:29.175Z"},"topicSlugs":["henry-a-kissinger","white-house-operations","telecommunications","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"269-006-splice.mp3","bytes":295959,"durationSec":18.47,"bitrate":128200,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T14:10:27.694Z","originalFilename":["269a.mp3","269b.mp3","269c.mp3","269d.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["269a.mp3"],"cutStart":5081.03,"cutEnd":5099.5,"adjustedStart":5081.03,"adjustedEnd":5099.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"medium","splicedAt":"2026-09-18T14:10:27.694Z"},"transcript":[{"start":5082.98,"end":5083.38,"text":"Yeah."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":5082.53,"end":5098,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"medium","transcriptSource":"bigtape","transcriptPrev":{"segments":1,"replacedAt":"2026-09-18T14:13:47.203Z"},"audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/269-006-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/269-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/269/conversation-269-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}