Conversation 341-023

TapeTape 341StartSunday, June 11, 1972 at 10:54 AMEndSunday, June 11, 1972 at 2:38 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building

AI Summary

President Nixon dictated a memorandum and reviewed a recording involving a University of California at Berkeley professor to analyze ideological differences between political wings. The discussion focused on the contrasting tactical approaches of left-wing and right-wing figures regarding the acquisition of power, specifically referencing George McGovern. Additionally, the President touched upon foreign policy themes, including the necessity of US military strength and reflections on his recent diplomatic trip to the Soviet Union.

George McGovernPolitical ideologyForeign policyUS-Soviet relationsMilitary powerPresidential memorandum

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NARA Description

On June 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:54 am and 2:38 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 341-023 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 341-23

Date: June 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:54 am and 2:38 pm.
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum.

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/16/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[341-023-w001]
[Duration: 5m 46s]

The President replayed the recorded memorandum.

     A meeting with unknown person

     A professor at the University of California at Berkeley

     Foreign policy
          -Europe
          -US military strength

                                          (rev. Jan-02)

           -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                -The President's trip to Moscow

[End of replay]

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Transcript (AI-Generated)

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With the right hand, that would be good.

Because the right, the right is distinguished from the left.

It's a very, very fundamental distinction.

Generally speaking, the right wingers, it is certain that what we would rather lose, despite the principle that we have, the left wingers, on the other hand, would always generally be willing

to, in order to get power, to compromise, to do what he needs to do.

And I think that McGovern, he said his idealists, they were idealists, but they didn't want to be so.

And I'll go down the form of a clue.

So he moved, though I could never move from his right, because

I'm obsessed with the idea of power.

The right wing is changing now.

It's not.

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