{"conversationCode":"536-005","tapeNumber":536,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-536-005","startDateTime":"1971-07-03T12:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-03T12:58:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Jul-1971","startTime":"8:50 AM","endDate":"3-Jul-1971","endTime":"8:58 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On July 3, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:50 am and 8:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 536-005 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 536-5\n\nDate: July 3, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:50 am and 8:58 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n[See Conversation No. 6-116]","filename":["536-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:15:23","tapeEnd":"01:16:11","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"536-004","nextCode":"536-006","transcript":[{"start":3.49,"end":5.84,"text":"I'm Mr. Carroll Donahue."},{"start":5.86,"end":11.82,"text":"Please, he's at the Massachusetts General Hospital."},{"start":11.84,"end":12.77,"text":"Massachusetts General Hospital."},{"start":12.79,"end":13.13,"text":"I'm in Boston."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with Carroll Donahue, who was located at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The brief exchange was conducted solely to establish this specific communication link. No further substantive policy matters or political discussions were recorded during this interaction.","topics":["Carroll Donahue","Massachusetts General Hospital","Telephone communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T23:17:38.248Z"},"topicSlugs":["carroll-donahue","massachusetts-general-hospital","telephone-communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"536-005.mp3","bytes":605832,"durationSec":15,"bitrate":323191,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.010Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:57.348Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/536-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/536-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/536/conversation-536-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}