Conversation: 022-009
Prev: 022-008 Next: 022-010Start Date: 23-Mar-1972 7:53 PM
End Date: 23-Mar-1972 8:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:15:15
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:26:26
NARA Description:
On March 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 7:53 pm to 8:05 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 22-9
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Date: March 23, 1972
Time: 7:53 pm - 8:05 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
The President’s Pay Board statement on George Meany, March 23, 1972
-Follow-up
-Clark MacGregor
-John B. Connally
-Congressional response
-Jacob K. Javits
-Labor Committee
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Opposition to special interests
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Calls to editors
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Editorial comment
-Donald H. Rumsfeld forthcoming statement
-Intensity of effort
-Connally
-Rumsfeld
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-A report from J. Edgar Hoover
-John D. Ehrlichman conversation with Hoover
-Experts’ conclusions
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Hoover
-Disagreements among experts
-Conclusions
-Dita D. Beard
-Revelations in press
-Judiciary Committee
-James O. Eastland
-Talk with Robert C. Mardian
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Kennedy
-Leaks
-Conrad [first name unknown]
-Unknown man on Kennedy’s staff
-Colson’s call to Ehrlichman
-Kennedy’s knowledge of investigation
Bureaucratic hostility to the President
-Colson’s view
-1930’s
-Department of Justice
-FBI
-Meany
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
Meany response to the President’s statement
-Conversation with George P. Shultz
-Unknown labor official
-American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-
CIO]
-ITT case
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Call from Colson
-Relations with Meany
-Call from Meany
-Pay Board
-Building trades
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
ITT case
-Ehrlichman
-Kennedy
-Knowledge of FBI report