Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 132 › Conversation 132-024

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Camp David

Thursday, May 18, 1972 · 12:00 AM–11:49 PM ET · Camp David Study Table · 2 min

Participants[Unknown person(s)]Conversation132-024 on Tape 132 (tape position 00:15:44–00:17:50)StartThursday, May 18, 1972 at 12:00 AMEndTuesday, June 6, 1972 at 11:49 PMRecording deviceCamp David Study TableSourceNixon Library record for 132-024 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417175149 ↗

AI Summary

An unknown individual confers with Dexheimer regarding the placement of thermometers at the Camp David presidential residence. The staff discusses the President’s specific request to have a readable thermometer placed in his bedroom rather than on his desk. The participants coordinate the removal of mounting hardware to ensure the device can be laid flat in the bedroom as requested.

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NARA Description

Unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 132-024 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 132-24

Date: Unknown between May 18, and June 6, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:00 am, May 18 and 11:49 pm, June 6
Location: Camp David Study Table

An unknown man talked with [Forename unknown] Dexheimer [sp?].

     Thermometers
         -[Forename unknown] Thompson
         -President's request
         -Location

Dexheimer conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time.

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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 11/06/2017.]
[Unintelligible]
[132-024-w001]
[Duration: 48s]

     Thermometer location

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[End of conferral]

     Thermometers
         -Location
         -Handle
         -Location

     Bathhouse

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The president requested that there be a thermometer so he can read it.
So what we're going to do is... Yeah, we took those frames off.
Mr. Thompson and I bought them.
And that one is going to lay in his bedroom so he can read it.
Well, wait a minute.
Hang on a minute.
Where did we decide that we were going to lay that one thermometer?
In the president's bedroom?
Of his desk, in the den?
Yeah, it'll be in his bedroom.
Okay, let me take it off his desk and put it in his bedroom.
Yeah, the handle's off of it, isn't it?
That brass frame for mounting it on a wall, that's not on it, is it?
Right, right.
Yeah, just lay that on his bedroom.
And we've got another one that is mounted, you know, by your projection booth.
Yeah, that one's mounted.
And that's a temporary thing.
Okay, if you find out anything down there that's missing or anything, let me know, will you?
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Okay.

Also recorded on May 18, 1972

  • 132-001 12:00 AM · 43 sec — Bill Beckman and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972.
  • 132-002 12:00 AM · 47 sec — Bill Beckman and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972.
  • 132-003 12:00 AM · 1 min — Bill Beckman and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972.
  • 132-004 12:00 AM · 39 sec — Unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972.
  • 132-005 12:00 AM · 47 sec — Bill Beckman and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972.
  • 132-006 12:00 AM · 52 sec — Bill Beckman and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972.
  • 132-007 12:00 AM · 2 min — Bill Beckman and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972.
  • 132-008 12:00 AM · 37 sec — Bill Beckman and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 12:00 am on May 18, 1972 and 11:49 pm on June 6, 1972.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 132-024, May 18, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417175149). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/132-024 (accessed November 2, 2026).