{"conversationCode":"140-025","tapeNumber":140,"conversationNumber":25,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-140-025","startDateTime":"1972-08-17T15:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-17T15:10:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Aug-1972","startTime":"11:10 AM","endDate":"17-Aug-1972","endTime":"11:10 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator;","description":"On August 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at 11:10 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 140-025 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. 140-25\n\nDate: August 17, 1972\nTime: 11:10 am\nLocation: Camp David Study Table\n\nThe President talked with the Camp David operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 203-15]\n\n     Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n         -Instructions","filename":["140-025.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Camp David Operator"],"prevCode":"140-024","nextCode":"140-026","transcript":[{"start":2.36,"end":2.94,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":2.96,"end":4.47,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."},{"start":4.49,"end":6.31,"text":"If he's on the phone... Yeah, he is on the phone."},{"start":6.33,"end":7.72,"text":"And you can call me when he finishes."},{"start":7.74,"end":8.12,"text":"Sure, sir."},{"start":8.8,"end":10.11,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the Camp David operator to facilitate an urgent communication with Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman. Upon learning that Haldeman was currently occupied on another call, the President instructed the operator to hold the request and notify him as soon as the line became available. This brief exchange served to coordinate administrative connectivity while the President was working from the Camp David Study.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","Presidential communications","White House operations","Administrative coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T08:40:32.310Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","presidential-communications","white-house-operations","administrative-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"140-025.mp3","bytes":316603,"durationSec":13.12,"bitrate":193050,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:32.999Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/140-025.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/140-025","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/140/conversation-140-025","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}