{"conversationCode":"140-014","tapeNumber":140,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-140-014","startDateTime":"1972-08-17T01:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-17T01:20:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Aug-1972","startTime":"9:06 PM","endDate":"16-Aug-1972","endTime":"9:20 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator;","description":"On August 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:06 pm and 9:20 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 140-014 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"CDST","recordingDevice":"Camp David Study Table","latitudeEstimated":39.648333,"longitudeEstimated":-77.465,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 140-14\n\nDate: August 16, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:06 pm and 9:20 pm\nLocation: Camp David Study Table\n\nThe Camp David operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 203-2]\n\n     George Meany call\n         -Meany’s location","filename":["140-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Camp David Operator"],"prevCode":"140-013","nextCode":"140-015","transcript":[{"start":1.28,"end":1.6,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.84,"end":8.17,"text":"Mr. President, on your call to Mr. Meany, we've exhausted all of our numbers and we haven't been able to locate him yet."},{"start":8.19,"end":8.63,"text":"Okay, let it go."},{"start":8.65,"end":9.01,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":9.07,"end":9.84,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with the Camp David operator regarding his attempt to contact George Meany. After the operator reported that all available phone numbers for the labor leader had been exhausted without success, Nixon decided to abandon the effort. The call concluded with the President instructing the operator to drop the matter.","topics":["George Meany","Labor relations","Communications","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T08:39:31.779Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-meany","labor-relations","communications","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"140-014.mp3","bytes":364877,"durationSec":15.15,"bitrate":192716,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:32.999Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/140-014.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/140-014","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/140/conversation-140-014","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}