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Conversation 204-007

TapeTape 204StartThursday, August 17, 1972 at 11:04 PMEndThursday, August 17, 1972 at 11:43 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Recording deviceCamp David Hard Wire
AI Summary

President Richard M. Nixon utilized the recording session at Camp David to rehearse and refine his upcoming acceptance speech for the Republican National Convention. By reviewing portions of the address, Nixon focused on messaging related to social unity, the rejection of discriminatory philosophies, and the goal of building a broad, bipartisan political majority. The exercise allowed the President to polish his oratorical delivery and solidify the ideological framework of his campaign platform.

Richard M. NixonRepublican National ConventionPresidential campaignSpeechwritingPolitical strategyCivil rights
AudioNARA Description

On August 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:04 pm and 11:43 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 204-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 204-7

Date: August 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:04 pm and 11:43 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President rehearsed his "Remarks on Accepting the Presidential Nomination of the
Republican National Convention".

[A transcript of the speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, 1972, pp. 787-795.]

The President replayed a portion of his speech at an unknown time between 11:04 pm and 11:43
pm.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.

Let's pledge ourselves to work for an even greater victory in 1972.
This convention has laid the foundation for that victory.
Fair enough.
I congratulate those.
I thought he was the best.
...recognize that there has been and is unjustified discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, rage, and national origin.
Those who move relentlessly remove the last vestiges of that discrimination.
But the way to end discrimination
Americans don't want to be part of the quarter, period.
They want to be part of America.
Dash has proud self, self-respecting individual citizens.
This nation proudly calls itself the United States of America.
Let us reject any philosophy which would make us a divided society.
And that's period.
I address
Not as a partisan of party.
I'll be sure to put it that way.
Not as a partisan of party.
Six weeks ago our opponents adopted a platform
we Americans believe in together.
Those historic opportunities which come once in a political lifetime, period, have the action to build a new majority in America.
Everyone listening to me tonight, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, young and old, black and white, labor and business, farmers and
We are proud people of different national backgrounds who make up the American people to join our new majority.
Not on the basis of the old politics, but on the basis of the new politics.
or what counts is not the party label you wear in your lapel.
a lifetime.
There he is.
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