{"conversationCode":"196-002","tapeNumber":196,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-196-002","startDateTime":"1972-07-23T14:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-07-23T14:52:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jul-1972","startTime":"10:15 AM","endDate":"23-Jul-1972","endTime":"10:52 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On July 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:15 am and 10:52 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 196-002 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"CDHW","recordingDevice":"Camp David Hard Wire","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. 196-2\n\nDate: July 23, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:15 am and 10:52 am\nLocation: Camp David Hard Wire\n\nThe President dictated memorandum for the file; the President incorrectly stated the date as July\n24, 1972.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 40s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Dictation continues as Conversation No. 196-4]","filename":["196-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"196-001","nextCode":"196-003","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.22,"text":"I don't know."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon utilized the recording system at Camp David to dictate a memorandum for his personal files regarding recent events. Although the President misidentified the date during the recording, the dictation served as an administrative record of his presidential activities. The brief segment captures the President documenting internal affairs, though the substantive content of the memorandum remains largely withdrawn from the public record.","topics":["Presidential dictation","White House records","Camp David","Administrative documentation","Memorandum"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T10:01:15.255Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-dictation","white-house-records","camp-david","administrative-documentation","memorandum"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"196-002.mp3","bytes":245759,"durationSec":10.19,"bitrate":193004,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:35.864Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/196-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/196-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/196/conversation-196-002","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}