Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 160 › Conversation 160-005

Nixon phone call with Camp David Operator on Bebe Rebozo

Friday, January 5, 1973 · 8:31 PM–8:47 PM ET · Camp David Study Table · 25 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David OperatorConversation160-005 on Tape 160StartFriday, January 5, 1973 at 8:31 PMEndFriday, January 5, 1973 at 8:47 PMRecording deviceCamp David Study TableSourceNixon Library record for 160-005 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon contacted the Camp David operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his close friend and confidant, Charles “Bebe” Rebozo. The President provided specific instructions to reach Rebozo, specifying his preference to speak only if a standard phone line was available rather than a radio-equipped location. This brief exchange served as an administrative request to coordinate personal communications during the President’s stay at Camp David.

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Yes, please.

Try Mr. Rebozo, please.

Thank you, Mr. Green.

If he's at, you know, on a walkers or someplace that radio don't get him, but if he's at a place on a normal phone, I'll talk to him, okay?

Okay, very good.

Thank you.

NARA Description

On January 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 8:31 pm and 8:47 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 160-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 160-5

Date: January 5, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:31 pm and 8:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 239-5]

       Request for call to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Also recorded on January 6, 1973

160-004 8:27 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 8:27 pm to 8:31 pm.
239-004 8:27 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 8:27 pm to 8:31 pm.
239-005 8:31 PM · 22 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 8:31 pm and 8:47 pm.
239-010 8:31 PM · 12 sec — Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 8:31 pm and 8:47 pm.
160-006 8:47 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo talked on the telephone at Camp David from 8:47 pm to 8:49 pm.
239-006 8:47 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 8:47 pm to 8:49 pm.
160-007 8:49 PM · 22 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David from 8:49 pm to 8:50 pm.
239-007 8:49 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 8:49 pm to 8:50 pm.

All 37 conversations from January 6, 1973 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 160-005, January 6, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/160-005 (accessed October 11, 2026).