Conversation: 002-121
Prev: 002-120 Next: 002-122Start Date: 7-May-1971 2:08 PM
End Date: 7-May-1971 2:54 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:14:07
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:31:31
NARA Description:
On May 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:08 pm and 2:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-121 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 2-121 Date: May 7, 1971 Time: 2:08 pm - unknown before 2:54 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 253-4] Victor Riesel's column on George Meany 69 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) -Riesel's conversation with Colson -Meany's relations with building trades union Meany -Attitude towards administration -Views toward Arthur F. Burns -James D. Hodgson -Building trades decision Conv. No. 2-119 (cont.) -Colson's conversation with James Suffridge -Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher -Philadelphia Plan -Apprenticeship program -George W. Romney -Burns -Meetings with labor leaders -Supersonic Transport [SST] -Lockheed -Suffridge's conversation with Meany -Alexander E. Barkan and Nathaniel Goldfinger -Jay Lovestone -Meany's successor -[Joseph] Lane Kirkland -International presidents -Paul Hall -Ronald H. Walker's name Labor support for President -Peter J. Brennan -Foreign policy issue -Law and order issue -Brennan's strength in New York -Barkan -Teamsters -Brennan -John F. Griner Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Attacks on media -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. -Howard K. Smith 70 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) Meany -1972 election -Attitude towards "left-wing" Democrats -Edmund S. Muskie -George S. McGovern -Building trades -Lovestone -Building trades Conv. No. 2-121 (cont.) -Political support -Blacks -Ethnic vote -George P. Shultz -Hubert H. Humphrey and Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy -Muskie -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -SST -President's possible conversation with Meany Congress [A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.] [End of transcript]