Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 29 › Conversation 029-028
Buchanan phone call on Wire service reports and Media monitoring
Friday, August 4, 1972 · 2:35 PM–2:58 PM ET · White House Telephone · 1 min
AI Summary
Patrick J. Buchanan engaged in a telephone conversation with an unidentified woman to review and process current wire service reports. The discussion focused on summarizing these news briefings to assist the White House in monitoring the day's media landscape. No specific policy actions or formal decisions resulted from this administrative exchange.
- Wire service reports
- Media monitoring
- Patrick J. Buchanan
- White House communications
Audio
Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.
NARA Description
On August 4, 1972, Patrick J. Buchanan and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:58 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-028 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 29-28
Date: August 4, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:35 pm and 2:58 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Patrick J. Buchanan talked with an unknown woman.
Assignment
-Wire service reports
[No conversation]
Summary of wire services reportsAlso 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.
- 029-024 2:34 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan talked on the telephone from 2:34 pm to 2:35 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.
- 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 029-028, 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/029-028 (accessed October 12, 2026).