Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 279 › Conversation 279-011

Nixon & Buchanan on East-West trade and Henry Kissinger

Wednesday, September 22, 1971 · 12:23 PM–12:24 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 27 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.Conversation279-011 on Tape 279 (tape position 01:36:35–01:37:00)StartWednesday, September 22, 1971 at 12:23 PMEndWednesday, September 22, 1971 at 12:24 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 279-011 ↗

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President Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan briefly discussed securing a positive response from Henry Kissinger regarding East-West trade initiatives and the Comer River project. The President directed Buchanan to ensure that Kissinger’s forthcoming paper highlights the administration’s previous accomplishments in these areas. This exchange functioned as a follow-up to coordinate communication strategy on foreign policy developments.

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Yeah.
Get out of Kissinger, a response, a positive response on the East-West trade and the Comer River thing.
He said he's got some thinking about that in the first section of the paper, too, but just to remind people what we've done.
All right.
All right.

NARA Description

On September 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:23 pm to 12:24 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 279-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 279-11

Date: September 22, 1971
Time: 12:23 pm - 12:24 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 9-116]

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  • 009-116 12:23 PM · 26 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Peter J. Brennan talked on the telephone from 12:23 pm to 12:24 pm.
  • 279-012 12:24 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:24 pm and 12:55 pm.
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Cite this conversation

Conversation 279-011, September 22, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/279-011 (accessed October 12, 2026).