Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 25 › Conversation 025-076
Nixon phone call with Smith on 1972 Primary Elections and Campaign Strategy
Tuesday, June 20, 1972 · 12:53 PM–12:55 PM ET · White House Telephone · 2 min
AI Summary
President Nixon called Senator Margaret Chase Smith to congratulate her on a narrow victory in her recent primary election. The two discussed her campaign strategies, expenditures, and the overall outlook for the 1972 Republican electoral prospects. Their conversation also touched upon the political landscape in Maine, including references to Edmund Muskie and the President's historical familiarity with the state.
- 1972 Primary Elections
- Campaign Strategy
- Maine Politics
- Republican Party
- Edmund Muskie
Audio
NARA Description
On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Margaret Chase Smith talked on the telephone from 12:53 pm to 12:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-076 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 25-76
Date: June 20, 1972
Time: 12:53-12:55 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Margaret Chase Smith.
[See Conversation No. 342-18]
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/30/2017.
Segment cleared for release.]
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[Duration: 2m 6s]
Primary election victory
-President's congratulations
-Margin
-Close race
-Margaret Chase Smith's strategy
-Campaign expenditures
Maine
-President's 1952 visit
-National campaigning
-President’s familiarity with Maine
-Edmund S. Muskie
-President's 1972 prospects
1972 campaign
-Margaret Chase Smith's race
-Prospects
-Republican candidates
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Also recorded on June 20, 1972
- 025-075 12:46 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 12:46 pm.
- 342-018 12:53 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Margaret Chase Smith met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:53 pm to 12:55 pm.
- 025-077 12:55 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 025-078 12:55 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 342-019 12:55 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 342-020 12:55 PM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 342-021 12:55 PM · 6 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 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 342-022 12:55 PM · 19 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 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 025-076, June 20, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417193775). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-076 (accessed November 10, 2026).