{"conversationCode":"152-003","tapeNumber":152,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-152-003","startDateTime":"1972-10-30T01:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-30T02:02:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Oct-1972","startTime":"8:55 PM","endDate":"29-Oct-1972","endTime":"9:02 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Brennan, John V.; Camp David Operator; Tower, John G.;","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.","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. 152-3\n\nDate: October 29, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:55 pm and 9:02 pm\nLocation: Camp David Study Table\n\nJohn V. (“Jack”) Brennan talked with the Camp David operator.\n\n        Arrangements for the President's call to John G. Tower\n\nThe President talked with Tower at 8:58 pm.\n\n[See Conversation No. 182-1]\n\n        Greetings\n\nThe Camp David operator talked with Brennan at an unknown time between 8:58 pm and 9:02\npm.\n\n        Brennan's monitoring of call\n            -Intercept\n            -Inability to listen on the line","filename":["152-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Brennan, John V.","Camp David Operator","Tower, John G."],"prevCode":"152-002","nextCode":"152-004","transcript":[{"start":3.69,"end":4.88,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":4.89,"end":5.84,"text":"Okay, I'm just listening on this."},{"start":6.62,"end":7.84,"text":"The son of a should be answering now."},{"start":8.62,"end":9.34,"text":"Just a moment."},{"start":10.74,"end":11.29,"text":"Hello, John."},{"start":11.3,"end":11.87,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":16.23,"end":18.05,"text":"You want to listen to the call, sir, on this line?"},{"start":18.5,"end":18.96,"text":"Yes, we can."},{"start":19.6,"end":21.26,"text":"Oh, we have no way of touching it."},{"start":21.34,"end":21.48,"text":"Okay."},{"start":21.5,"end":24.39,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":33.93,"end":36.48,"text":"So we have no way of putting it on the line."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"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.","topics":["Telephone logistics","Presidential communications","John G. Tower","White House telecommunications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T08:54:32.641Z"},"topicSlugs":["telephone-logistics","presidential-communications","john-g-tower","white-house-telecommunications"],"audioDurationSec":40,"audioFiles":[{"file":"152-003.mp3","bytes":964230,"durationSec":40.11,"bitrate":192333,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:33.323Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:56.025Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/152-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/152-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/152/conversation-152-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}