Conversation: 204-002

Start Date: Friday, August 18, 1972 12:30 AM

End Date: Friday, August 18, 1972 2:32 AM

Participants:

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

204-002.mp3

NARA Description:

On August 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 8:30 pm and 10:32 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 204-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 204-2

Date: August 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:30 pm and 10:32 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President rehearsed his "Remarks on Accepting the Presidential Nomination of the
Republican National Convention".

[A transcript of the speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, 1972, pp. 787-795.]

      [Pause]

The President replayed portions of his speech at an unknown time between 8:30 pm and 10:30
pm.