President Nixon communicated with the Camp David operator from the Aspen Lodge study to facilitate a telephone connection. The brief exchange served as an administrative bridge to initiate a separate call, identified as Conversation 136-20. No substantive policy matters or executive decisions were addressed during this brief operational interaction.
On July 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:37 am and 12:18 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 196-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 196-6
Date: July 23, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:37 am and 12:18 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President talked with Camp David operator.
[See Conversation No. 136-20]No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.