Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 211 › Conversation 211-012

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on H.R. Haldeman

Sunday, September 17, 1972 · 10:25 AM–11:27 AM ET · Camp David Hard Wire · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Conversation211-012 on Tape 211StartSunday, September 17, 1972 at 10:25 AMEndSunday, September 17, 1972 at 11:27 AMRecording deviceCamp David Hard WireSourceNixon Library record for 211-012 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 648453176 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon dictated a memorandum to H.R. Haldeman regarding the scheduling of campaign tours for Patricia and Julie Nixon. He proposed shifting their focus from "heavy-media areas" to Southern, Border, and mountain states, including smaller towns in larger states and locations previously unvisited by national celebrities, to provide them a "rest" from intense press scrutiny.

Campaign scheduling
Patricia Nixon
Julie Nixon
H.R. Haldeman
Memorandum dictation
Tour strategy
Press scrutiny

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NARA Description

On September 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:25 am and 11:27 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 211-012 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 211-12

Date: September 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:25 am and 11:27 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

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NixonParagraph. With regard to scheduling, Patricia and Julie would like very much to work in tours to Southern and Border States and also to mountain states at this time. Period.

NixonI think we have been throwing them into the heavy-media areas long enough and while of course we should not rule out such areas totally, and particularly not rule them out for the last two weeks,

Nixonit might be well to give them a rest, open paren, and in the case of the sharpies in the press corps, open paren, in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia,

Nixonand Los Angeles, close paren, and schedule them into

Nixonplaces like South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and others. The smaller towns in larger states, like Texas,

Nixonwhere they will be particularly seen. Same can be said of Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho,

Nixonand all other states of that type. Also, I would, particular emphasis on their schedules to be on towns that no national celebrity has visited before. That's the end of the tape.

Also recorded on September 17, 1972

211-013 10:25 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:25 am and 11:27 am.
143-003 11:27 AM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at 11:27 am.
143-004 11:27 AM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:27 am and 11:28 am.
211-014 11:27 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at 11:27 am.
143-005 11:28 AM · 29 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:30 am.
143-006 11:28 AM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:30 am.
211-015 11:28 AM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at 11:28 am.
211-016 11:28 AM · 30 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:30 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 211-012, September 17, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 648453176). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/211-012 (accessed November 2, 2026).