President Nixon utilized this session at the Aspen Lodge to dictate a memorandum for the official record. The recording captures the President documenting specific information for his files, though the substantive details of the dictation were excluded from the public record. This action served to formalize his administrative recollections or instructions during his stay at Camp David.
On August 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:25 am and 11:42 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 205-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 205-4
Date: August 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:25 am and 11:42 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President dictated a memorandum for the file.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 22s ]
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[This conversation continues as Conversation No. 205-6]
(rev. Oct-06)No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.