Conversation: 016-010
Prev: 016-009 Next: 016-011Start Date: 5-Dec-1971 8:12 PM
End Date: 5-Dec-1971 8:28 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:17:24
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:33:04
NARA Description:
On December 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 8:12 pm to 8:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 16-10
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Date: December 5, 1971
Time: 8:12 pm - 8:28 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
India-Pakistan War
-Press coverage
-President’s views
-John A. Scali
-State Department interview
-Media
-Reaction
Press
-Vice President's speech
-Coverage
-Democrats
-Weekend wrap-up reports
-Congress and the President
-Check-off [?]
-Economic stabilization
-Phase II
-Tone
-George W. Romney speech
-Democrats
-Location
-Call to Romney by President scheduled
Romney
-Usefulness to administration
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Harriet McCormack funeral
-[Unintelligible]
Public attitudes
-Mrs. Nixon’s and Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s activities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 12s ]
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President's schedule
-Forthcoming National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] program [“A Day in the Life
of the President”], December 6, 1971
-Scali
-Use in campaign
-Possible prints
George Meany
-Health
-Reports
-Possible effectiveness
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 52s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-India-Pakistan War
-Administration role
-Refugees
-United Nations [UN]
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Louis P. Harris
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Confidential Strategy Report
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Polls
-President’s vulnerability
-Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Content criticized
-Confidence issue
-Institutions
-Public
Albert E. Sindlinger call to Colson
-Stock Market
-Public attitudes
Bullish”
-Business activity
-Christmas, 1971
-April, 1972
-Consumers
-Tax break
-Sindlinger
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 52s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Supreme Court nominations
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-William H. Rehnquist
-Possible difficulty
Foreign Aid
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Opposition
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Partisanship
Congress
-Antagonistic relationship with administration
-Earl L. Butz
-Public opinion
-Butz
-Rehnquist
-Foreign aid
-Administration advantage
-Butz
-Big business
-Rehnquist
-Civil rights record
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 32s ]
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