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Conversation 332-029

TapeTape 332StartTuesday, April 25, 1972 at 10:40 AMEndTuesday, April 25, 1972 at 10:45 AMTape start time03:03:03Tape end time03:04:12ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AI Summary

President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield to coordinate logistics for an upcoming dinner with congressmen. The discussion focused on finalizing the guest list, specifically addressing invitations for Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, Donald Rumsfeld, and former representative Clark MacGregor. The participants also reviewed drafting edits for a speech regarding Vietnam policy, emphasizing the administration's stance against communist aggression and the necessity of preventing future conflicts.

Presidential schedulingCongressional relationsVietnam War policySpeechwritingMelvin Laird
AudioNARA Description

On April 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:40 am to 10:45 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 332-029 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 332-29

Date: April 25, 1972
Time: 10:40 am - 10:45 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

     The President's schedule
          -Dinner for congressmen
               -Melvin R. Laird
                      -Invitation
               -Guest list
               -Donald H. Rumsfeld
               -Former congressmen
                      -Clark MacGregor

Butterfield left at 10:45 am.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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We honor her both sides, the South Vietnam and North Vietnam, each respecting the other than the others.
Before you say, leave that view, we often want to share it with you, so put in an insert before that.
Black or North Vietnam or any other country, we want no territory, we seek no basis, and then we often want to share it with you.
Thank you.
And then after they, they should take it after.
We will not be humiliated.
We will not be abused.
And we will never surrender.
We will never surrender.
I did not say this was a matter of jingoistic national crime.
must face up to this informed and supported communist aggression.
If it fails in Vietnam, it will be discouraged elsewhere.
If it succeeds there, it will be encouraged elsewhere, and the risk of war in other places in the world will be an arm's length increase.
Please let us bring our men home from Vietnam.
Let us end the war in Vietnam.
But let us end it in a way that the younger brothers and the sons of the brave men
We have fought in Vietnam.
We'll not be fighting in some other Vietnam at some time in the future.
My friends and critics alike, this is an election year that I risk winning the election by resisting this new aggression.
Our air naval force is to resist this new aggression.
that I would greatly increase my chances to win the election if I brought peace to Vietnam, whatever the price.
I can sit in his office and act in a way that weakens the presidency of the United States.
I completely reject.
Well...
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