Conversation: 387-002
Prev: 387-001 Next: 387-004Start Date: Tuesday, December 5, 1972 12:57 PM
End Date: Tuesday, December 5, 1972 1:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Brennan, Peter J.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On December 5, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Peter J. Brennan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 7:57 am and 8:10 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 387-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 387-2
Date: December 5, 1972
Time: Unknown between 7:57 am and 8:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.
Buchanan's health
-Arthritis
-Whirlpool bath
Press relations
-New York Times article on monograph, "The Dirtiest Campaign in History Against
a President"
-Reaction
-1972 campaign
-George S. McGovern
-Frank F. Mankiewicz
-R. Sargent Shriver
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Press relations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 387-2 (cont’d)
-Analysis of 1972 campaign
-Virginia [?]
-Charles W. Colson
-Herbert G. Klein
-Sidney Brookes
-Max Lemer
-Harrison Salisbury
-1972 campaign
-George S. McGovern
-Criticism
-Salisbury
-Edward M. Kennedy’s candidate
Democratic National Committee [DNC] chairman
-Robert S. Strauss
-Division in Party
-Compared to Republicans in 1964
-Dean Burch, Ray C. Bliss
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s roll
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Buchanan left at an unknown time before 8:10 am.
[There is no Conversation No. 387-3.]