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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Patrick J. Buchanan
October 21, 1971
Conversation No. 281-1

Date: October 21, 1971
Time: 8:20 am - 8:30 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

Preparation for the President's October 21, 1971 speech announcing nominations to the
Supreme Court
-Chief Justices
-Warren E. Burger
-Poll on the Supreme Court's standing
-Charles W. Colson
-Louis P. Harris
-Instructions for Buchanan
-Quote from Walter Lippmann
-Justices' personal philosophy
-John M. Harlan
-Hugo L. Black
-Philosophy of appointees
-Burger
-The President's intent
-Criminal's rights
-Rights of society
-Wording of statement
-Hippocratic oath
-Timing
-Harris poll
-Quote from Lippmann

News summary
-Supreme Court nomination
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Nobel Peace Prize
-Willy Brandt
-Stock Market
-Cambodia
-Nobel Peace Prize
-Brandt
-World War II service
-Political philosophy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 281-1 (cont.)


-Berlin Agreement
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Linus Pauling (?)

Buchanan left at 8:30 am.
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