President Nixon communicated with a Camp David operator from the Aspen Lodge study to facilitate a telephone connection. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request for external communication. No substantive policy matters or major developments were recorded during this brief technical interaction.
On September 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:30 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 211-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 211-17 Date: September 17, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:28 am and 11:30 am Location: Camp David Hard Wire The President talked with the Camp David operator. [See Conversation no. 143-6]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.