Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 391 › Conversation 391-026

Nixon & Hatfield on Re-election campaign and Oregon politics

Friday, November 3, 1972 · 9:38 AM–9:42 AM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 4 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Hatfield, Mark O.; Hatfield, Mark O. (Mrs.)Conversation391-026 on Tape 391StartFriday, November 3, 1972 at 9:38 AMEndFriday, November 3, 1972 at 9:42 AMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 391-026 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met briefly with Senator Mark Hatfield and his wife to express his support for the Senator's re-election campaign in Oregon. Nixon emphasized the importance of returning Hatfield to the Senate and urged him to focus on maximizing voter turnout. The President also discussed upcoming campaign travel plans and referenced an impending policy speech regarding the situation in Vietnam.

  • Mark O. Hatfield
  • Re-election campaign
  • Oregon politics
  • Vietnam policy
  • Election strategy

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So, so, did I get you out of bed?
You're not burning, huh?
You're an organic.
Well, I just wanted to call you here to tell you that, while I can't get to Oregon, I'm glad that you're running well, as we expected, and I want you back in that Senate because we need to,
I was trying to work together with her, but we were all doing that for four years.
And if you would give my best, Mark, to all of you, we'd soon call the paint industry.
Get off the boat, you know?
And to tell them that we're moving now to a place that we all want.
We need a little conflict there as well.
Don't let them get discouraged about the, about the .
But anyway, it's moving along.
It's moving along and I, we don't want to raise .
As I said last night.
I know it.
a lot of people.
I'm going to make a board policy speech tomorrow for every other Vietnam on radio.
You may find it interesting.
You were very pleased with your wife who was nice enough to send that picture of Pat.
I thought it was great.
I just saw that today, as a matter of fact.
Well, it's a really great time when I'm having my own office, so I don't have to wait for it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, I hope so.
Yeah.
Oh, I hope so.
Great job.
All right.
Ben Brown said to that lady, I also remembered it being my mother.
I don't know if you're another word, or one minute, or whatever it was.
But anyway, thank you.
Tom's Bar, right?
Right, right.
Well, we did want to go to the market.
We were so pleased to have that name.
And I'm sure I did.
Yeah, and we hope that it's go hard.
We want both of you back in Washington for the next four years.
And we're glad that all the reporters in your campaign are good.
And I'm going to go in and drive to four or five states in the next few days where we have both sentries.
But I know Oregon is the same, so we're doing this.
And if you get the vote out, that's amazing.
We just want to let them know how it's done.
Okay?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right, you'll be sober and sober then.
Okay, that's right.
Yeah.
That's right, I told everybody.
That's right, okay.
All right.
No, no, no, please.
All right.
Okay, I got it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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NARA Description

On November 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Mark O. Hatfield, and Mrs. Mark O. Hatfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:38 am to 9:42 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 391-026 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 391-26

Date: November 3, 1972
Time: 9:38 am - 9:42 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Mark O. Hatfield.

[See Conversation 32-164]

The President talked with Mrs. Mark O. Hatfield at an unknown time between 9:38 am and 9:42
am.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 391-026, November 3, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/391-026 (accessed September 28, 2026).