Conversation: 767-010
Prev:  767-009 Next: 767-011Start Date: 11-Aug-1972 8:55 AM
End Date: 11-Aug-1972 9:28 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:55 am to 9:28 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 767-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 767-10 5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) Date: August 11, 1972 Time: 8:55 am – 9:28 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan. Retail sales Stock market ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 4m 3s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Public relations -Possible questions for the President’s family -Republican National Convention -Activities of the President’s family -Activities of the President -Presidential debates -Clark MacGregor -Activities of the President -1972 campaign contrasted with the 1960 and 1968 campaigns -Responsibilities of a Vice President relating to a campaign -Responsibilities of a President during a campaign -Duties of the Office of the President -Foreign policy -Congress -Schedule ***************************************************************** 6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 3m 32s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** The Administration’s record of appointing women -Unimportance of number of appointments -Stenographers -Filing clerks -Appointments to policy positions -Supreme Court -Cabinet -Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] [Dixy Lee Ray] -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] [Marina von N. Whitman] -Federal Maritime Commission [Helen D. Bentley] ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 47s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 ***************************************************************** Campaign -Press -News summary stories -The Administration’s response to perceived media bias -Depiction of crowd response at George S. McGovern event in New Hampshire 7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Lyndon K. ("Mort") Allin -John Dancy -National Broadcasting Company [NBC] -Associated Press [AP] -Actual size of crowd -New Hampshire -Compared to crowds from the President’s appearances in the 1964 campaign -Barry M. Goldwater -Fairness -Kenneth W. Clawson -John A. Scali -John W. Chancellor -Melvin R. Laird -David Brinkley -Chancellor -W. Ramsey Clark -Remarks on J. Edgar Hoover -Possible appointment as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Robert J. Dole’s previous remarks -Efforts relative to North Vietnamese -Possible remarks by Administration speakers -Tone of campaign -Compared with 1970 campaign -Film -William L. Safire -Charges against Republicans -Campaign fundraising -Watergate -James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. -Possible indictments ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 2m 10s ] 8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 ***************************************************************** Vietnam related issues -Clark -Media interest -Haldeman -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Possible statement -Forthcoming speech -Timing -Agnew -Speech on amnesty -Writers -Issue of the President's position on amnesty -Carl Sandburg's anecdote on Abraham Lincoln -Civil War-era deserter who moved to Canada -Lincoln's action -Recent Supreme Court decision -[John] Calvin Coolidge -Harry S. Truman -Quakers -The President’s view -Peace Corps -Lincoln -Buchanan’s view Agnew's possible speeches -Questions for McGovern -John P. Sears -Clark -Possible appointment as FBI director -Previous trip to Hanoi -Hoover -Role as anti-communist -Contrasted with Clark -Possible speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] national convention -McGovern’s forthcoming VFW speech 9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 5m 2s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 ***************************************************************** The President's schedule -Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger Buchanan left at 9:28 am.