{"conversationCode":"009-114","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":114,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-114","startDateTime":"1971-09-22T15:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-22T15:41:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Sep-1971","startTime":"11:39 AM","endDate":"22-Sep-1971","endTime":"11:41 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.;","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.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 9-114\n\nDate: September 22, 1971\nTime: 11:39 am - 11:41 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.\n\n[See Conversation No. 279-9]\n\n     Drugs\n          -Brief statement by Buchanan\n                -Administration action\n                -Length\n                -Wording\n                -Drug policy advisor [Jerome K. Jaffe]","filename":["009-114.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:32:24","tapeEnd":"03:33:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Buchanan, Patrick J."],"prevCode":"009-113","nextCode":"009-115","transcript":[{"start":1.09,"end":20.71,"text":"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"},{"start":21.12,"end":24.01,"text":"so that we can say we have a worldwide offensive."},{"start":24.03,"end":33.74,"text":"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."},{"start":33.84,"end":34.06,"text":"Right."},{"start":34.84,"end":40.43,"text":"I presently work on it, but it needs the support of the people and education, a little crap like that."},{"start":40.65,"end":40.87,"text":"Okay."},{"start":40.89,"end":42.27,"text":"Okay, fine, sir."},{"start":42.29,"end":42.49,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"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.","topics":["Drug policy","Public relations","Administration messaging","Jerome K. Jaffe","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:59:58.244Z"},"topicSlugs":["drug-policy","public-relations","administration-messaging","jerome-k-jaffe","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":43,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-114.mp3","bytes":1033194,"durationSec":42.98,"bitrate":192319,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-114.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-114","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-114","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}