{"conversationCode":"176-005","tapeNumber":176,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-176-005","startDateTime":"1972-08-17T22:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-17T22:23:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Aug-1972","startTime":"6:18 PM","endDate":"17-Aug-1972","endTime":"6:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator; Sanchez, Manolo; Cox, Tricia Nixon;","description":"On August 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Camp David operator, Manolo Sanchez, and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone at Camp David from 6:18 pm to 6:23 pm. The Camp David Study Desk taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 176-005 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"CDSD","recordingDevice":"Camp David Study Desk","latitudeEstimated":39.648333,"longitudeEstimated":-77.465,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 176-5\n\nDate: August 17, 1972\nTime: 6:18 pm - 6:23 pm\nLocation: Camp David Study Desk\n\nThe President talked with the Camp David operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 203-28]\n\nThe President conferred with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n     Request for H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n\n[End of conferral]\n\n     Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox\n\nThe President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 11/08/2017.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal returnable]\n[176-005-w001]\n[Duration: 4m 43s]\n\n     Advice on the President’s Republican Party acceptance speech\n         -State of the Union tone\n         -Political impact\n         -New majority\n         -Issues coverage\n         -Quotas\n\n     Discussion of rough draft of the President’s Republican Party acceptance speech\n          -Congratulations to Republican Convention\n                 -Division\n                 -Discrimination\n                      -Race, religion, sex, age, national background\n                      -Quotas\n                      -Divided States of America\n          -Partisan of principles as opposed to a partisan of party\n                 -Unity vs. division\n                 -Democrats and Republicans\n          -New majority\n          -Political philosophies\n                 -We/They\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["176-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Camp David Operator","Sanchez, Manolo","Cox, Tricia Nixon"],"prevCode":"176-004","nextCode":"176-006","transcript":[{"start":1.6,"end":5.88,"text":"Thank you, sir."},{"start":6.44,"end":12.42,"text":"Just a moment."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with his staff and his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, to refine the themes for his upcoming Republican National Convention acceptance speech. The discussion focused on establishing a tone similar to a State of the Union address, emphasizing national unity over political division. Central to the draft were arguments against the use of quotas and the promotion of a 'new majority' that transcends traditional partisan affiliations.","topics":["Republican National Convention","Acceptance speech","Political strategy","State of the Union","Quotas","National unity"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T09:40:53.951Z"},"topicSlugs":["republican-national-convention","acceptance-speech","political-strategy","state-of-the-union","quotas","national-unity"],"audioDurationSec":24,"audioFiles":[{"file":"176-005.mp3","bytes":584306,"durationSec":24.29,"bitrate":192416,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:33.323Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:59.572Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/176-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/176-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/176/conversation-176-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}