{"conversationCode":"036-118","tapeNumber":36,"conversationNumber":118,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-036-118","startDateTime":"1973-01-30T18:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-30T18:23:00.000Z","startDate":"30-Jan-1973","startTime":"1:22 PM","endDate":"30-Jan-1973","endTime":"1:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Brennan, Peter J.;","description":"On January 30, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Peter J. Brennan talked on the telephone from 1:22 pm to 1:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 036-118 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 36-118\n\nDate: January 30, 1973\n\f                                              -74-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                        (rev. Jul-08)\n\n                                                             Conversation No. 36-118 (cont’d)\n\nTime: 1:22 pm - 1:23 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.\n\n[See Conversation No. 406-10]\n\n       Buchanan's book\n            -Reference to Peace movement\n                  -The President’s view\n                  -Henry A. Kissinger","filename":["036-118.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Brennan, Peter J."],"prevCode":"036-117","nextCode":"036-119","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":9.77,"text":"First, I think you've done a fine job in this book."},{"start":9.79,"end":12.25,"text":"I just want to ask you about one point at this time."},{"start":14.17,"end":27.49,"text":"I was rather shocked to see, and I don't know whether it's your language or Henry's, that the peace movement contained men of conviction and great moral courage who sincerely believed in the rightness of what they were doing."},{"start":28.48,"end":30.15,"text":"And I'm not going to put it in."},{"start":30.82,"end":32.18,"text":"And who's insisting on that?"},{"start":32.22,"end":33.71,"text":"Nobody's insisting on that, sir."},{"start":33.73,"end":34.66,"text":"Okay, it's not going in."},{"start":34.9,"end":35.2,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consults with Patrick J. Buchanan regarding the manuscript for Buchanan's upcoming book. Nixon expresses strong disapproval of a passage describing the anti-war peace movement as possessing moral courage and conviction. Buchanan quickly agrees to remove the controversial language from the text, successfully satisfying the President's demand.","topics":["Patrick J. Buchanan","Anti-war movement","Book manuscript","Presidential censorship","Vietnam War"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:06:14.710Z"},"topicSlugs":["patrick-j-buchanan","anti-war-movement","book-manuscript","presidential-censorship","vietnam-war"],"audioDurationSec":42,"audioFiles":[{"file":"036-118.mp3","bytes":1008346,"durationSec":41.88,"bitrate":192616,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.788Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/036-118.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/036-118","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/36/conversation-036-118","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}