Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 344 › Conversation 344-023

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Arms control

Thursday, June 22, 1972 · 1:08 PM–1:35 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation344-023 on Tape 344 (tape position 03:00:12–03:01:29)StartThursday, June 22, 1972 at 1:08 PMEndThursday, June 22, 1972 at 1:35 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 344-023 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon discusses the political strategy for securing defense funding from senators who support arms control measures. He emphasizes framing the legislative argument around the necessity of maintaining a strong defense posture to ensure the success of long-term arms limitation agreements. Nixon instructs his interlocutor to emphasize that failing to support these defense programs would undermine the progress made toward permanent offensive weapon limitations.

Arms control
Defense funding
Congressional relations
Strategic arms limitation
Legislative strategy

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NARA Description

On June 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:08 pm and 1:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 344-023 of the White House Tapes.

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Conversation No. 344-23

Date: June 22, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:08 and 1:35 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

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Those who got not supported, added an ongoing burden to deal with them, will destroy the changes for the permanent limitation on all acts of violence.

Well, okay.

Now, you can say that, but...

destroy that and put it on that basis rather than on the basis of well, because we have our implementation agreement, we must have the other program.

That isn't the point.

is because we have this, we want to get another one.

And in order to get the other one, we must have an envelope.

And also another reason we've got to have those layers is that if we don't have an envelope, the United States will be focused on the third one.

So, yeah, I think I'll stay on it on this again.

All right.

They all were there about 3 o'clock.

I actually, I think about 4 o'clock.

You see some people are about to go next week.

They're 30, they aren't still on time.

Also recorded on June 22, 1972

025-122 12:15 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:15 pm and 12:56 pm.
344-020 12:15 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:15 pm and 12:56 pm.
344-021 12:15 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:15 pm and 12:56 pm.
025-123 12:56 PM · 11 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 12:56 pm to 1:08 pm.
344-022 12:56 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:56 pm to 1:08 pm.
344-024 1:35 PM · 11 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:35 pm to 1:45 pm.
344-025 1:45 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:58 pm.
344-026 1:45 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:58 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 344-023, June 22, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/344-023 (accessed November 14, 2026).