{"conversationCode":"140-053","tapeNumber":140,"conversationNumber":53,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-140-053","startDateTime":"1972-08-21T01:52:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-21T02:32:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Aug-1972","startTime":"9:52 PM","endDate":"20-Aug-1972","endTime":"10:32 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator;","description":"On August 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:52 pm and 10:32 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 140-053 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. 140-53\nDate: August 20, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 9:52 pm and 10:32 pm\nLocation: Camp David Study Table\n\nThe President talked with the Camp David operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 206-21]\n\n     Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["140-053.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Camp David Operator"],"prevCode":"140-052","nextCode":"140-054","transcript":[{"start":3.1,"end":5.49,"text":"Mr. Holland, please."},{"start":5.51,"end":6.48,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the Camp David operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief interaction served solely as a functional administrative request to bridge communication between the President and his senior aide. No substantive policy matters or political strategies were discussed during this exchange.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","Presidential communications","White House operations","Administrative request"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T08:43:08.975Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","presidential-communications","white-house-operations","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"140-053.mp3","bytes":224443,"durationSec":9.29,"bitrate":193207,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:32.999Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/140-053.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/140-053","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/140/conversation-140-053","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}