Conversation: 013-051
Prev: 013-050 Next: 013-052Start Date: 31-Oct-1971 7:57 PM
End Date: 31-Oct-1971 8:13 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:47:40
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:03:01
NARA Description:
On October 31, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 7:57 pm to 8:13 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-051 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 13-51
Date: October 31, 1971
Time: 7:57 pm - 8:13 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
George H. W. Bush
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-Television appearance
-Colson's note
-President's note
-Television interview
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Audience
Edward M. Kennedy
-Attacks by Elliot Richardson and Robert Dole
Dole
-Forthcoming call from Colson
Hugh Scott
-Previous television appearance
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Liberals
-Call to Colson from Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
Democrats
-Contrasted with Republicans
-Partisanship
-Possible Republican response
-Agnew's forthcoming speech
Bush
-Television interview
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Vietnam War
-President
-United Nations vote on Taiwan
-President's reaction
-Israel
-Arab delegates
-Television appearances
-Administration public relations
-Bush
-Scott
-Dole
-Richardson
-Possible role in administration
-United Nations [UN]
-Public relations
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Scott
George H. Gallup and Louis P. Harris polls
-Newspaper headlines
Robert Sherman
-Articles in Washington Star
-Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Henry A. Kissinger
-New York Times
-Colson's forthcoming meeting with Smith Hempstone, Jr.
Hempstone
-Columns
-President's schedule
-Possible meeting
-Column on Jesse Phillips (sp?)
-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
-Possible meeting with the President
-Sherman
-Role with Star
-Editorials
-Possible meeting with the President
Sherman
-Articles in Star
-Effect
Previous Senate vote on foreign aid program
-Public reaction
-J. William Fulbright
-William Timmons’ previous meeting with Scott
-President's schedule
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership
-Vietnam
-Greece
-President's forthcoming conversation with George H. Mahon
-White House response
-Michael J. Mansfield
-House and Senate Appropriations Committees
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-Bush's previous statements
-President's performance
Polls
-Newspaper articles
-Gallup, Harris
United Nations vote on Taiwan
-As an issue
Previous Senate vote on foreign aid program
-As an issue
-Scott's statement
-Fulbright, Edward M. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
-Republican attacks
-Press coverage
-Compared with Supreme Court nomination issue
Agnew
-Forthcoming speech
-Foreign policy
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Tone and content
Sherman
-Colson's forthcoming investigation
-Hempstone
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