{"conversationCode":"216-001","tapeNumber":216,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-216-001","startDateTime":"1972-10-03T02:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-03T12:40:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Oct-1972","startTime":"10:10 PM","endDate":"3-Oct-1972","endTime":"8:40 AM","dateCertainty":"estimated","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"United States Secret Service agents; Camp David Operator;","description":"United States Secret Service agents and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 10:10 pm on October 2, 1972 and 8:40 am on October 3, 1972. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 216-001 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. 216-1\n\nDate: Unknown between October 2 and 3, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:10 pm, October 2, 1972 and 8:40 am, October 3, 1972\nLocation: Camp David Hard Wire\n\nUnknown men [Secret Service agents] met.\n\n        [Unintelligible]\n\n        The President's schedule\n            -Use of items\n            -Return to Camp David\n\n        Paging devices\n            -Number 856 858\n                -Owner\n\nAn unknown talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 10:10 pm,\nOctober 2 and 8:40 am, October 3, 1972.\n\n[Conversation No. 216-1A]\n\n[See Conversation No. 145-25; one item has been withdrawn]\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n        Baltimore office\n\n        Schedule\n            -Baltimore\n                -Party\n\nThe conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 8:40 am, October 3, 1972.","filename":["216-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents","Camp David Operator"],"prevCode":"215-012","nextCode":"217-001","transcript":[{"start":41.41,"end":69.86,"text":"I don't like to use these lights at night."},{"start":75.67,"end":96.2,"text":"8-5-6-7, 8-5-8, there's one missing, we'll tell you about that today."},{"start":104.44,"end":106.96,"text":"Yes, I have paid for it."},{"start":107.18,"end":108.52,"text":"It's 856 and 858."},{"start":108.75,"end":127.2,"text":"Each other with one agent."},{"start":127.22,"end":127.56,"text":"Who'd that go to?"},{"start":127.58,"end":128.74,"text":"He said it was all four of them."},{"start":218.31,"end":223.11,"text":"I'll let them have it for tomorrow."},{"start":223.13,"end":224.56,"text":"Yeah, he went down there today for a cocktail party with all of them."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Secret Service agents and a Camp David operator held an informal discussion at Aspen Lodge regarding logistical operations and equipment management. The dialogue primarily concerned the tracking of specific paging devices and the coordination of the President's upcoming schedule. Participants also briefly touched upon travel logistics involving the Baltimore office and a social engagement.","topics":["Secret Service","Camp David","Logistics","Paging devices","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T10:38:08.276Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","camp-david","logistics","paging-devices","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":242,"audioFiles":[{"file":"216-001.mp3","bytes":5799809,"durationSec":241.6,"bitrate":192046,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:35.865Z","transcriptGapSeconds":67,"transcriptGapShare":0.28,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","transcriptCleaned":{"captions":1},"audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/216-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/216-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/216/conversation-216-001","catalogNaId":651227691,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/651227691","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}