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Conversation 032-078

TapeTape 32StartSaturday, October 28, 1972 at 9:24 AMEndSaturday, October 28, 1972 at 9:27 AMParticipantsHaldeman, H. R. ("Bob");  Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording deviceWhite House Telephone
AI Summary

H. R. Haldeman and Ronald Ziegler coordinated a last-minute schedule change regarding President Nixon’s upcoming addresses, swapping the planned “Defense” speech with the “One America” speech. Haldeman directed Ziegler to announce that the Defense speech was being postponed by one day to allow for further editing and to maximize its strategic impact. Ziegler agreed to relay these instructions to Gerald Warren to ensure the public announcement reflected the revised schedule.

Presidential schedulingPublic relationsSpeechwritingDefense policyMedia management
AudioNARA Description

On October 28, 1972, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 9:24 am to 9:27 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-078 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 32-78

Date: October 28, 1972
Time: 9:24 am - 9:27 am
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Oct-06)

Location: White House Telephone

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 809-2A]

        Ziegler's call

        The President's schedule
            -Changes
                -Defense speech and “One America” speech
                -Defense speech
                     -Announcement
                     -Editing
                     -Postponement
                     -Announcement
                -Today's speech
                -Defense speech
                -Postponement
                     -Reasons
                -Gerald L. Warren
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Hello.
Mrs. Ziegler.
Okay.
There you are.
Ron.
It's Bob.
Yeah.
The President wanted to talk to you because he wants to move the defense speech to tomorrow and do the One America speech today.
And you've already announced that today would be the defense speech, but the thought would be that he's had to do some extensive editing on the defense speech because of the importance of it and so on, and that it will therefore be postponed until tomorrow and he'll deliver a different address today, the one he was planning to do tomorrow.
Okay, should we announce the title?
Today?
Yeah.
I don't think so.
We'll just say a different speech.
Yeah, instead he'll substitute today the speech that he was planning to give.
Tomorrow.
And then what will he give tomorrow?
Defense.
All right.
We should say that.
Definitely.
He'll give the defense speech tomorrow, but he's postponing it one day because of some extensive editing he's had to do on it and because of the importance of the speech.
Right.
He'd like to hypo the defense speech.
Okay.
And we want to get the best ride out of it we can, and plus he is doing some reworking on it.
Yeah, I'll call Jerry right away.
I just voted.
That works okay, don't you think?
Yeah, it works fine.
Okay.
I'm on my way in.
Okay.
Bye.
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