{"conversationCode":"022-137","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":137,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-137","startDateTime":"1972-04-16T15:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-16T18:00:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1972","startTime":"10:55 AM","endDate":"16-Apr-1972","endTime":"1:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Brennan, John V.;","description":"On April 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John V. Brennan talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-137 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 22-137\n\nDate: April 16, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan.\n\n[See Conversation No. 329-60]\n\n     The President’s trip to Camp David\n          -Helicopter\n               -Departure\n                      -Time\n          -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon\n          -Manolo Sanchez\n\n     Vietnam\n          -Air strikes\n                -Henry A. Kissinger’s report on Pentagon reaction","filename":["022-137.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:18:30","tapeEnd":"05:19:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Brennan, John V."],"prevCode":"022-136","nextCode":"022-138","transcript":[{"start":2.29,"end":3.15,"text":"Hello."},{"start":3.31,"end":3.87,"text":"Major Brennan, sir."},{"start":4.09,"end":4.43,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":5.66,"end":6.02,"text":"Hello."},{"start":6.7,"end":7.7,"text":"Good afternoon, Mr. President."},{"start":7.72,"end":9.8,"text":"Jack, we would like to go up to Camp David."},{"start":9.84,"end":13.01,"text":"I wondered if they could have the helicopter about 1 o'clock."},{"start":13.13,"end":13.57,"text":"You can."},{"start":13.81,"end":14.41,"text":"We can."},{"start":14.43,"end":14.71,"text":"Fine."},{"start":15.21,"end":15.75,"text":"We're ready."},{"start":16.31,"end":21.5,"text":"Mr. Nixon, I'll be going up and I'll inform Manola here."},{"start":21.86,"end":22.2,"text":"All right."},{"start":22.44,"end":22.92,"text":"Thank you, sir."},{"start":22.94,"end":25.99,"text":"Incidentally, that's the..."},{"start":26.46,"end":30.11,"text":"Henry tells me that the Pentagon are jumping up and down about that strike last night."},{"start":30.56,"end":31.88,"text":"Ah, wonderful, wonderful."},{"start":31.9,"end":32.77,"text":"They really clobbered it."},{"start":33.05,"end":33.69,"text":"Great."},{"start":33.79,"end":34.7,"text":"I'm very proud of you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon coordinates logistics with Major John V. Brennan for an afternoon helicopter departure to Camp David, accompanied by the First Lady and Manolo Sanchez. Amidst these travel arrangements, the President expresses strong approval regarding recent U.S. air strikes in Vietnam. He specifically notes positive feedback from Henry Kissinger concerning the Pentagon’s enthusiastic reaction to the success of the military operation.","topics":["Camp David","Helicopter logistics","Vietnam War","Air strikes","Pentagon","Henry Kissinger"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:29:32.177Z"},"topicSlugs":["camp-david","helicopter-logistics","vietnam-war","air-strikes","pentagon","henry-kissinger"],"audioDurationSec":35,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-137.mp3","bytes":835081,"durationSec":34.72,"bitrate":192414,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.522Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-137.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-137","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-137","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}