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)

-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.]