{"conversationCode":"190-003","tapeNumber":190,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-190-003","startDateTime":"1972-05-17T21:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-17T21:48:00.000Z","startDate":"17-May-1972","startTime":"5:30 PM","endDate":"17-May-1972","endTime":"5:48 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On May 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 5:30 pm and 5:48 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 190-003 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"CDHW","recordingDevice":"Camp David Hard Wire","latitudeEstimated":39.648333,"longitudeEstimated":-77.465,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 190-3\n\nDate: May 17, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:30 and 5:48 pm\nLocation: Camp David Hard Wire\n\nThe President dictated a diary entry.\n\n[This conversation is a continuation of Conversation No. 190-1]\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 9s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n**********************************************************************","filename":["190a.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:02:07","tapeEnd":"00:03:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"190-002","nextCode":"190-004","tapeTranscriptFile":"190a.mp3","transcript":[{"start":134.64,"end":136.78,"text":"May Mr. Higg please, General Higg."},{"start":240.01,"end":241.89,"text":"Well, what's the report?"},{"start":241.95,"end":253.62,"text":"No intention to get them there, though, are we?"},{"start":253.64,"end":254.06,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":254.2,"end":260.38,"text":"And they're hitting that canton area hard, too, aren't they?"}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":127,"end":260.375,"startMethod":"tape_time","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon recorded a brief diary entry while at Camp David, which included a request for a status report from General Alexander Haig. The discussion focused on military developments in Vietnam, specifically questioning the intent behind troop movements and the intensity of airstrikes in the canton area. The exchange reflects the President’s close monitoring of tactical operations during a critical phase of the Vietnam War.","topics":["Vietnam War","Alexander Haig","Military strategy","Airstrikes","Presidential diary"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T09:49:27.661Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-war","alexander-haig","military-strategy","airstrikes","presidential-diary"],"audioDurationSec":93,"audioFiles":[{"file":"190a.mp3","bytes":111232979,"durationSec":6967.98,"bitrate":127707,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:35.863Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/190a.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/190-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/190/conversation-190-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}