President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield coordinate the President's upcoming schedule to prioritize a campaign trip to Kentucky and ensure the completion of pending administrative and media tasks. Nixon instructs Butterfield to shift minor obligations to Friday and expresses frustration over delays in receiving prepared texts for his farm and urban radio addresses. To address these bottlenecks, the President demands immediate action on scripts and suggests potentially recording radio spots as early as that afternoon.
On October 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone from 2:30 pm to 2:32 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-038 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 032-038 Date: October 25, 1972 Time: 2:30 pm - 2:32 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield. [See Conversation No. 372-30] The President's forthcoming radio address on the American farmer, October 27 -Text -Completion The President's schedule -Kentucky visit -Changes -Television films -Gilroy Roberts -Schedule Butterfield conferred with an unknown woman at an unknown time between 2:30 and 2:32 pm. [End of conferral] The President's schedule -Change -Filming of a meeting with William M. Blount and J. Caleb Boggs -Russell E. Train's staff -Change -Blount-Boggs meeting -Radio talks -Number Butterfield conferred with an unknown woman at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and 2:32 pm. -Haldeman's scheduling -Forthcoming farm speech -Text -Date -Urban speech -Completion -Radio speeches -The President's review -Completion -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
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