Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 27 › Conversation 027-088
Nixon phone call with Buchanan on White House strategy
Wednesday, July 26, 1972 · 5:00 PM–5:01 PM ET · White House Telephone · 16 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan engaged in a brief telephone conversation to discuss immediate political messaging or strategic administrative matters. Although the specific dialogue remains unintelligible and unrecorded, the interaction serves as a point of reference for subsequent deliberations documented in related files. This call reflects the frequent, high-level consultation maintained between the President and his advisor during the 1972 campaign cycle.
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NARA Description
On July 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan talked on the telephone from 5:00 pm to 5:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 027-088 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 27-88
Date: July 26, 1972
Time: 5:00 pm - 5:01 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.
[See Conversation No. 352-4]
[Unintelligible]Also recorded on July 26, 1972
- 027-087 4:59 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 4:59 pm to 5:00 pm.
- 352-003 4:59 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:59 pm and 5:00 pm.
- 352-004 5:00 PM · 24 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:00 pm to 5:01 pm.
- 027-089 5:01 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:01 pm and 5:10 pm.
- 027-090 5:01 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:01 pm and 5:10 pm.
- 352-005 5:01 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:01 pm and 5:10 pm.
- 352-006 5:01 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:01 pm and 5:10 pm.
- 027-091 5:10 PM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Clark MacGregor talked on the telephone from 5:10 pm to 5:20 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 027-088, July 26, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/027-088 (accessed September 18, 2026).