{"conversationCode":"190-015","tapeNumber":190,"conversationNumber":15,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-190-015","startDateTime":"1972-05-17T11:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-17T11:59:00.000Z","startDate":"17-May-1972","startTime":"7:50 AM","endDate":"17-May-1972","endTime":"7:59 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 7:50 am and 7:59 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 190-015 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. 190-15\n\nDate: May 18, 1972\n\n                                          (rev. Oct-06)\n\nTime: Unknown after 7:50 and before 7:59 am\nLocation: Camp David Hard Wire\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]\n\n       Fire in fireplace\n\n       Filipino cooks\n\n       White House\n\n       [Unintelligible]\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 30s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:59 pm.","filename":["190a.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:56:06","tapeEnd":"00:59:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"190-014","nextCode":"190-016","tapeTranscriptFile":"190a.mp3","transcript":[{"start":3424.57,"end":3425.76,"text":"You take it out."},{"start":3488.14,"end":3488.32,"text":"Kjærle."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":3366,"end":3560,"startMethod":"tape_time","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held an brief, informal morning meeting with an unidentified individual at the Aspen Lodge in Camp David. The discussion, which was interrupted by significant recording discontinuities and withdrawn personal segments, touched upon mundane domestic details including the maintenance of a fireplace and the staffing of Filipino cooks at the White House. No substantive policy decisions or political developments were recorded during this brief encounter.","topics":["White House operations","Camp David","Domestic staff","Informal meetings"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T09:50:33.915Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","camp-david","domestic-staff","informal-meetings"],"audioDurationSec":194,"audioFiles":[{"file":"190a.mp3","bytes":111232979,"durationSec":6967.98,"bitrate":127707,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:33.573Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/190a.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/190-015","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/190/conversation-190-015","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}