{"conversationCode":"152-008","tapeNumber":152,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-152-008","startDateTime":"1972-10-30T22:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-30T22:22:00.000Z","startDate":"30-Oct-1972","startTime":"5:00 PM","endDate":"30-Oct-1972","endTime":"5:22 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator;","description":"On October 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 5:00 pm and 5:22 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 152-008 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. 152-8\n\nDate: October 30, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:22 pm\nLocation: Camp David Study Table\n\nThe President talked with the Camp David operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 222-13A]\n\n        The President's call to Richard J. Daley\n            -Callback\n            -Col. Jack Reilly","filename":["152-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Camp David Operator"],"prevCode":"152-007","nextCode":"152-009","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":7.87,"text":"Operator, I placed a call to Mayor Daley and he has not returned it."},{"start":7.91,"end":14.34,"text":"If you try it again and if you can't get him, get Colonel Riley in Chicago."},{"start":14.38,"end":15.62,"text":"You got that name, Riley?"},{"start":15.86,"end":16.26,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":16.32,"end":16.93,"text":"Colonel Riley."},{"start":17.07,"end":17.25,"text":"Right."},{"start":17.89,"end":18.53,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the Camp David operator to re-attempt a failed phone call to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. If the Mayor remained unreachable, the President directed the operator to locate and connect him with Colonel Jack Reilly instead. The conversation served as an administrative directive to ensure the President maintained a channel of communication with his contacts in Chicago.","topics":["Richard J. Daley","Jack Reilly","Communication","Chicago","Presidential logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T08:54:59.813Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-j-daley","jack-reilly","communication","chicago","presidential-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"152-008.mp3","bytes":557347,"durationSec":23.16,"bitrate":192520,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:33.323Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/152-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/152-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/152/conversation-152-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}