{"conversationCode":"143-008","tapeNumber":143,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-143-008","startDateTime":"1972-09-17T17:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-09-17T17:53:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Sep-1972","startTime":"1:25 PM","endDate":"17-Sep-1972","endTime":"1:53 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator;","description":"On September 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 1:53 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 143-008 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. 143-8\n\nDate: September 17, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:25 pm and 1:53 pm\nLocation: Camp David Study Table\n\nThe President talked with the Camp David operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 211-21]\n\n            Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["143-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Camp David Operator"],"prevCode":"143-007","nextCode":"143-009","transcript":[{"start":0.66,"end":3.32,"text":"Awesome, please."},{"start":3.5,"end":4.79,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the Camp David operator to facilitate an outgoing call to White House special counsel Charles W. Colson. This brief communication served solely as a logistical request to establish a line of connection. No substantive policy matters or political strategies were discussed during this brief exchange.","topics":["Communication","Charles W. Colson","Logistics","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T08:45:22.788Z"},"topicSlugs":["communication","charles-w-colson","logistics","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"143-008.mp3","bytes":226324,"durationSec":9.37,"bitrate":193164,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:33.322Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/143-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/143-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/143/conversation-143-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}