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Conversation 361-024

TapeTape 361StartTuesday, August 22, 1972 at 12:58 PMEndTuesday, August 22, 1972 at 1:35 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");  Bull, Stephen B.;  Kehrli, Bruce A.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AI Summary

President Nixon and H.R. Haldeman met to discuss strategies for the upcoming presidential acceptance speech, focusing on contrasting Nixon's platform with George McGovern's national defense positions. The participants evaluated the use of teleprompters in political delivery, analyzing McGovern’s technique compared to Nixon’s, while also processing a backlog of legislative bills. Additionally, the President reviewed the visual impact of wearing flag lapel pins during television appearances, ultimately deciding against their use due to visibility concerns.

1972 CampaignAcceptance speechGeorge McGovernTeleprompterFlag lapel pinsLegislative bills
AudioNARA Description

On August 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Bruce A. Kehrli met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:58 pm to 1:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 361-024 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 361-24

Date: August 22, 1972
Time: 12:58 pm - 1:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

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             The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
                 -Statements on George S. McGovern's positions
                      -National defense

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm.

             Bills for signing
                  -Bruce A. Kehrli

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm.

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Kehrli entered at 1:30 pm.

[Signing of documents]

             The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
                 -Possible use of teleprompter
                     -McGovern's Use
                          -Haldeman’s view
                               -Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
                               -McGovern's delivery

             Bills awaiting the President’s approval
                  -Number of bills

Kehrli left at 1:32 pm.

                  -Grover Cleveland

                                       (rev. Nov-03)

            Flag lapel pins
                -Appearance on television
                     -The President’s view

The President and Haldeman left at 1:35 pm.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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for the United States unilaterally .
And up here I .
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He's getting some of his control on us.
He's not going to deal with us.
What is your, uh, your judgment of the helicopter that's gone?
The three guys that use the...
Unless you're really skillful.
The governor uses it well.
He uses both of them side to side pretty well.
But it delivers terrible otherwise.
The only thing that's good is his teleprompter technique.
It's actually not well established, but such as it does, you know, there's still more there.
And there's about 40 more there.
So, and there are no, you know, well, the land, the last two, there's quite a lot of them now.
Okay.
Yeah, thank you very much.
Good afternoon.
You can bring them in.
We'll build them tomorrow.
We'll get them up together.
You know, we'll get them down as fast as we can.
I suspect he didn't have quite as many bills.
I'm sure you didn't because it would have been physically impossible to do.
I think it's a villain.
I watched the flag of the motels and I thought it was good.
On TV?
I think you're right.
I think they distract by watching that.
First of all, you can't see it.
You can't see it.
You won't know how it is.
Thank you.
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