On March 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 11:01 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 324-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 324-14
Date: March 22, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:05 am and 11:01 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President dictated a memorandum for the file.
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[324-014-w001]
[Duration: 1m 12s]
Nihat Erim
-Intelligence
-Demeanor
-Meeting with the President
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Gift [?]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am.
Briefing book
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.
The President resumed dictating.
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[324-014-w002]
[Duration: 30s]
Criticism
-California liberals
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The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield between 10:10 am and 10:11 am.
[Conversation No. 324-14A]
[See Conversation No. 21-129]
[End of telephone conversation]
Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 10:11 am.
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[314-014-w003]
[Duration: 6m 56s]
Request
-Coffee
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.
The President resumed dictating.
1972 election
-Nihat Erim
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-The President's prospects
-Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert S. McNamara
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.
John G. Tower
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Unknown person
Dinner
John N. Mitchell
Democrats
George H. W. Bush
US
-Leadership
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