Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 784 › Conversation 784-019
Nixon, Haldeman & Bull on Campaign Strategy and Public Relations
Thursday, September 21, 1972 · 12:20 PM–12:22 PM ET · Oval Office · 5 min
AI Summary
President Nixon met with H.R. Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Manolo Sanchez to coordinate his upcoming campaign travel schedule and manage the timing of key administrative announcements. The discussion focused on synchronizing public appearances, such as the SALT agreement signing and various trade-related press conferences, with political outreach efforts in states like Texas. Nixon also criticized R. Sargent Shriver’s planned political activities in Texas, dismissing them as ineffective, while confirming the itinerary for his own upcoming trip involving local Democratic representatives.
- Campaign Strategy
- Presidential Scheduling
- Public Relations
- Texas Politics
- SALT Treaty
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Uh, I told you.
I told you.
I told you.
I told you.
Absolutely.
I think most of it jumped out.
It will be gone like a scene on Monday.
Saturday is something I'll have to accept, but I think it's interesting how you concentrate on those speeches.
The following week, it seems, I'd like for you to see that this book, this book, has all the pending dates of those various announcements and all their plans.
Okay.
And make the date of, for example, Conway's broadcast.
Whatever that's going to be.
I don't know what all the campaign things, but that perhaps...
Right, things that would affect whether or not I do a press name.
Now, we decided we would not do a press name.
That's the matter there.
And Salt signing is on the third.
Cozy speaks on the fourth.
Terry Freeman on the tenth.
We were telling them the press conference that day, tie it right to the trade agreement.
But it would be there the 10th or 11th, but Boston is the 12th.
Assault 2 is on the 16th.
Security on the 24th.
Security.
Congressman Vaughn, I'm facing from the Texas Center.
Go ahead.
Let's do it again.
I expect you haven't gotten any of it.
Well, that's .
New York is the second.
New York, uh, New York 2nd, Ashland on the 3rd.
Southern California suburb of New York.
All right.
Good.
That's it.
I have kindly read the suggested remarks on the thing.
In fact, you might want to take a look at them before we get into the speech writing.
Or maybe you don't even want to bother getting into the speech writing writing.
You can just be using them for yourself.
I think I'm just going to have to do something about it.
The driver is apparently planning to have a beets and tamales dinner with some Mexican workers or something in Florida, South Texas that night to show the hearing of the fat cats and millionaires and the folks and everything.
Which everybody thinks is going to backfire.
a cheap shot for a guy that's supposed to be Vice President of the United States.
It's gonna be hard to get away with it.
Senator Benson and both Democratic Congressmen are going with us on the Texas trip.
Sure, because we've got all the rest.
But we've got to talk to God.
He knows he's going to be with us.
He's going to be with us all day this morning.
So why don't you just stick around?
I'll just finish this in a minute.
Okay.
NARA Description
On September 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:20 pm to 12:22 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 784-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 784-19
Date: September 21, 1972
Time: 12:20 pm - 12:23 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President schedule
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Meets and greets
-Duration
-Photograph opportunities
-The President's speeches
-International Monetary Fund appearance [IMF] September 25, 1972
-New York, September 26, 1972
-California, September 27-28, 1972
-Announcements
-John B. Connally broadcast
-Press conference
-October 1972
-Atlanta, October 5, 1972
-Andrei A. Gromyko dinner, October 2, 1972
-Signing of Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] agreement, October 3,
1972
-Gromyko dinner
-Connally's speech, October 4, 1972
-Trade agreement, October 10, 1972
-Press conference
-Boston
-SALT II, October 16, 1972
-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe [CSCE],
October 24, 1972
-Chicago, October 26, 1972
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:20 pm.
The President's schedule
-Robert R. Casey
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:22 pm.
The President's schedule
-Announcements
-Chicago
-Texas, November, 1972
-The President's visit to New York, November 2, 1972
-Astrodome, November 3, 1972
-California
-Connally's speech draft for the President
-Texas reception
-Speech writer
-September 2, 1972 dinner for Mexican workers, Floresville, Texas
-R. Sargent Shriver
-The President’s previous trip to Mexican high school, Laredo, Texas
-Drugs
-The President's trip to Texas
-Lloyd M. Bentsen
-Two Democratic Congressmen [Elegio (“Kika”) de la Garza and
Abraham Kazen]
Haldeman’s schedule
Haldeman left at 12:22 pm.
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:20 pm.
Instruction
Sanchez left at 12:23 pm.Also recorded on September 21, 1972
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 784-019, September 21, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/784-019 (accessed October 12, 2026).