Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 9 › Conversation 009-114

Nixon phone call with Buchanan on Drug policy and Public relations

Wednesday, September 22, 1971 · 11:39 AM–11:41 AM ET · White House Telephone · 43 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.Conversation009-114 on Tape 9 (tape position 03:32:24–03:33:07)StartWednesday, September 22, 1971 at 11:39 AMEndWednesday, September 22, 1971 at 11:41 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 009-114 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon instructed Patrick J. Buchanan to prepare a concise, half-page summary of the administration's anti-drug initiatives for public dissemination. The President emphasized the need to frame these efforts as a coordinated, three-front "worldwide offensive" while highlighting the role of the administration's drug policy advisor. This directive aimed to simplify the messaging regarding government drug policy to effectively garner public support and emphasize the administration's active oversight.

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yeah yes sir try to prepare on the drug thing in a very terse uh uh brief uh answer uh the uh what this administration has done i mean okay but i don't want eight pages you know right half a page so that
so that we can say we have a worldwide offensive.
You know, remember where I used the worldwide offensive and attacking it on three fronts or et cetera, or maybe that, but we have that, and we've got the doctor so-and-so in the White House.
Right.
I presently work on it, but it needs the support of the people and education, a little crap like that.
Okay.
Okay, fine, sir.
All right.

NARA Description

On September 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan talked on the telephone from 11:39 am to 11:41 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-114 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 9-114

Date: September 22, 1971
Time: 11:39 am - 11:41 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 279-9]

     Drugs
          -Brief statement by Buchanan
                -Administration action
                -Length
                -Wording
                -Drug policy advisor [Jerome K. Jaffe]

Also recorded on September 22, 1971

  • 009-112 11:14 AM · 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan talked on the telephone from 11:14 am to 11:45 am.
  • 279-006 11:14 AM · 11 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:14 am to 11:25 am.
  • 009-113 11:25 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:25 am and 11:39 am.
  • 279-007 11:25 AM · 52 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 11:25 am and 11:39 am.
  • 279-008 11:25 AM · 3 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 11:25 am and 11:39 am.
  • 279-009 11:39 AM · 44 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:39 am to 11:41 am.
  • 009-115 11:41 AM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:41 am and 12:23 pm.
  • 279-010 11:41 AM · 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 11:41 am and 12:23 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 009-114, September 22, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-114 (accessed October 12, 2026).