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Conversation: 204-002

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Start Date: 17-Aug-1972 8:30 PM

End Date: 17-Aug-1972 10:32 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

204-002a.mp3

204-002b.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.