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Conversation 344-003

TapeTape 344StartTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 4:09 PMEndTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 4:14 PMTape start time00:01:39Tape end time00:06:27ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Buchanan, Patrick J.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
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On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:09 pm to 4:14 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 344-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 344-3

Date: June 20, 1972
Time: 4:09-4:14 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 25-89]
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If you could get one line, I don't know if you could get one line out of Novak's piece for the show.
I may not do it, but I just thought it would be wonderful if you could put it on somewhere.
The second thing is that I don't intend to get into the state at this point, but the second thing is that when you refer to that vote, was that the vote on pre-15?
Was that a vote on pre-15 at all?
Yeah, well, just for the future, it seemed to me that the first one, I don't know what that vote was.
I think it was a vote on pre-15, but I think
It's also very scary to know that it's going to happen.
It's also important.
But, I mean, we can't suspend it and allow it.
It might have gone forever.
But beyond that, the question is whether or not, in their speeches, they might be able to...
I just got the call.
I said, I would rather that.
But my guess is that it was probably one of those, probably a pre-missing extension.
It's all right.
But my general feeling about the debate question is that it was a very wrong question.
I just say, look, I have some ideas.
Well, I'm going to say I wasn't questioning it.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we'll see.
The answer is, of course, a very good one.
And, of course, it's a very good one.
You can start off by saying the other four accountants took that belief.
The other point is that
Uh, I wondered if checking on the, uh, you know, on the tax thing, that tax question, whether we ought to have unveiled this kind of thing.
It's a little hard for me.
Of course, you're referring to that as your last paragraph, aren't you?
You know, we're, that's the bill that, you know, provides for the, I don't know, what we're doing.
And maybe it's, it, it, it, it, it allows, uh, really, I mean, makes the Congress vote on it, you know, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on,
Is that, is that, you talked to the Shultz guy the other day?
Yeah.
Yeah, I see.
Well, uh, uh, you might just give him a call and say that, that I was just being stupid.
That's what I'm doing.
He's got a, he's got a general view about it.
But, uh, that's what I am.
He hasn't been bumped, you know.
What?
They're done.
You can have them.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to come back to you here.
Okay.
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