Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 152 › Conversation 152-003
Nixon, Camp David Operator & Tower on Telephone logistics
Sunday, October 29, 1972 · 8:55 PM–9:02 PM ET · Camp David Study Table · 40 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon, John V. Brennan, and the Camp David operator coordinated technical arrangements to facilitate a private phone call between the President and Senator John G. Tower. The participants discussed the feasibility of monitoring or patching into the call, ultimately confirming that the requested line access was not technically possible. No substantive policy matters were addressed, as the brief exchange focused solely on the logistics of the connection.
- Telephone logistics
- Presidential communications
- John G. Tower
- White House telecommunications
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NARA Description
On October 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John V. Brennan, Camp David operator, and John G. Tower talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 8:55 pm and 9:02 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 152-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 152-3
Date: October 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:55 pm and 9:02 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
John V. (“Jack”) Brennan talked with the Camp David operator.
Arrangements for the President's call to John G. Tower
The President talked with Tower at 8:58 pm.
[See Conversation No. 182-1]
Greetings
The Camp David operator talked with Brennan at an unknown time between 8:58 pm and 9:02
pm.
Brennan's monitoring of call
-Intercept
-Inability to listen on the lineAlso recorded on October 30, 1972
- 152-001 7:55 PM · 1 min — John V. Brennan and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 7:55 pm and 8:58 pm.
- 152-002 7:55 PM · 2 min — John V. Brennan, Camp David operator, unknown person(s), and Dan Milne talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 7:55 pm and 8:58 pm.
- 222-002 7:55 PM · 13 sec — John V. Brennan and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 7:55 pm and 8:58 pm.
- 222-003 7:55 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John V. Brennan, Camp David operator, and unknown person(s) met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 7:55 pm and 8:58 pm.
- 182-001 8:55 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John V. Brennan, Camp David operator, and John G. Tower talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 8:55 pm and 9:02 pm.
- 222-004 8:55 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John V. Brennan, Camp David operator, and John G. Tower met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 8:55 pm and 9:03 pm.
- 182-003 12:01 AM · 13 sec — the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 12:01 am and 8:55 am, but the conversation appears to be blank.
- 222-005 9:30 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:30 am and 9:50 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 152-003, October 30, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/152-003 (accessed October 5, 2026).