Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 32 › Conversation 032-160

Nixon phone call with Price on Foreign policy and 1972 election

Friday, November 3, 1972 · 8:42 AM–8:46 AM ET · White House Telephone · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.Conversation032-160 on Tape 32StartFriday, November 3, 1972 at 8:42 AMEndFriday, November 3, 1972 at 8:46 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 032-160 ↗

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President Nixon consulted with speechwriter Raymond K. Price, Jr. to request a specific addition to an upcoming foreign policy address. Nixon directed Price to draft a paragraph framing the 1972 election as a mandate to strengthen his hand in future international negotiations. The President emphasized the need to convey to world leaders that the American public supports his strategic shift from confrontation to cooperation, requesting the revision be completed by 10:00 am.

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Hello.
I read the foreign policy.
I think it's just fine.
I was wondering if you could put in a very brief paragraph, because I want to keep this theme up, in which you could put it in maybe at the time of travel to the countries abroad or maybe toward the end, where you say that in the next four years, the President of the United States, whoever is the President of the United States,
traveling or we'll be negotiating with major powers and always you know we'll be negotiating on a broad front you see the people of america will be watching this election the leaders of the world be watching it uh i uh i uh tonight asked for today for the support of the american people uh so that uh
It's all a negotiation from strength idea, but in a different context.
We'll be watching.
If you approve of the great beginnings we have made, I intend to continue on this course.
And your vote on election day will strengthen my hand as I continue to move on this course.
will be a message to the leaders of the world that the people of the United States back are solidly back of our efforts to to negotiate from confrontation to negotiation to cooperation among the people of the world got a paragraph on that and I've tried to get this done this morning as a matter of fact in fact I've if you could get a paragraph within a
By 10 o'clock, it'll be fine.
OK?
Sure will.
Thank you.

NARA Description

On November 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Raymond K. Price, Jr. talked on the telephone from 8:42 am to 8:46 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-160 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 032-160

Date: November 3, 1972
Time: 8:42 am - 8:46 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 391-18A]

        The President's speech on foreign policy
            -The President's travels
            -Addition
                -Next term
                     -Future negotiations
                -Negotiations
                     -The President's initiatives
                          -1972 election
                               -Impact on world leaders
                -Completion

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  • 391-018 8:34 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:34 am and 8:42 am.
  • 391-019 8:34 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:34 am and 8:42 am.
  • 391-020 8:46 AM · 37 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:46 am and 9:00 am.
  • 032-161 9:00 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:00 am and 9:12 am.
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Cite this conversation

Conversation 032-160, November 3, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-160 (accessed September 28, 2026).