Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 29 › Conversation 029-024
Nixon phone call with Buchanan on Presidential staff
Friday, August 4, 1972 · 2:34 PM–2:35 PM ET · White House Telephone · 10 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan engaged in a brief telephone exchange. The conversation served as a preliminary check-in between the President and his advisor. No significant policy decisions or substantive political matters were addressed during this short interaction.
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NARA Description
On August 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan talked on the telephone from 2:34 pm to 2:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 29-24
Date: August 4, 1972
Time: 2:34 pm - 2:35 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.
[See Conversation No. 362-8]
Buchanan
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Meeting with the PresidentAlso recorded on August 4, 1972
- 029-023 2:32 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:32 pm and 2:34 pm.
- 362-006 2:32 PM · 17 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 2:32 pm and 2:34 pm.
- 362-008 2:34 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:34 pm to 2:35 pm.
- 029-025 2:35 PM · 13 sec — Charles W. Colson and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:58 pm.
- 029-026 2:35 PM · 28 sec — Charles W. Colson and Holly Holm talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:58 pm.
- 029-027 2:35 PM · 22 sec — Patrick J. Buchanan and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:58 pm.
- 029-028 2:35 PM · 1 min — Patrick J. Buchanan and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:58 pm.
- 362-009 2:35 PM · 51 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Patrick J. Buchanan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:35 pm to 2:58 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 029-024, August 4, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-024 (accessed October 1, 2026).