President Richard M. Nixon utilized this session to rehearse his upcoming televised address regarding the ongoing crisis in Southeast Asia. The President practiced delivery techniques and refined rhetoric aimed at maintaining public support for his administration's foreign policy objectives. This preparation served to formalize the language he would use to justify his strategic decisions and appeal for national unity.
On May 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:34 pm and 7:14 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-062 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 336-62
Date: May 8, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:34 and 7:14 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President rehearsed his “Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia”.
[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 583-587]
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