President Nixon contacted the Camp David operator to facilitate a telephone call to his special counsel, Charles W. Colson. This brief communication served solely as a logistical request to establish a line of connection between the President and his aide. No substantive policy discussions or decisions were recorded during this brief administrative interaction.
On December 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 12:09 pm and 12:13 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 158-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 158-17 Date: December 29, 1972 Time: Unknown between 12:09 pm and 12:13 pm Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with the Camp David operator. [See Conversation No. 237-21] -22- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM (rev. May-08) Conversation No. 158-17 (cont’d) Request for a call to Charles W. Colson
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.