President Nixon initiated a brief communication with the Camp David operator from the Aspen Lodge study. The interaction served as a routine administrative coordination between the President and the facility's support staff. No substantive policy discussions or significant political decisions were recorded during this brief exchange.
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 1:25 pm and 1:53 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 211-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 211-21 Date: September 17, 1972 Time: Unknown between 1:25 pm and 1:53 pm Location: Camp David Hard Wire The President talked with the Camp David operator. [See Conversation no. 143-8]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.