Conversation: 022-067
Prev: 022-066 Next: 022-068Start Date: 3-Apr-1972 3:19 PM
End Date: 3-Apr-1972 3:33 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:38:05
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:52:07
NARA Description:
On April 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 3:19 pm to 3:33 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-067 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 22-67 Date: April 3, 1972 Time: 3:19 pm - 3:33 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 328-35] The President conferred with an unknown person at 3:19 pm. [End of conferral] The President’s schedule -Foreign policy matter -Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case -George S. McGovern -Questioning by the press -Mistake -The President’s view -Primary -Press coverage 54 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Staff -Links with Edward M. Kennedy’s staff -Mistake -Taxes -Investigation by the Committee -Kennedy staff man -McGovern’s statement -Press criticism Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -Criticism of New York Times -Boeing employee Media -Coverage of Senators ITT case -Dita D. Beard -Criticism of Vance Hartke statment -Developments -Time and Newsweek -Public response -Peter Lisagor -Lack of evidence -Colson’s efforts -Creating doubt -Public response -Administration’s strategy -Timing Economy -Food prices -Colson’s talk with Albert E. Sindlinger -Poll -Public attitude -John B. Connally’s remarks -Upcoming Marina von N. Whitman briefing -Wholesale Price Index [WPI] Vietnam -Public issue -North Vietnam offensive into South Vietnam 55 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Bombing by the US -Publicity -White House strategy -US withdrawal -Democrats’ strategy on issue -The President’s view -McGovern -Edmund S. Muskie statement -Military action -Disadvantages -Public response -North Vietnamese aggression -Treaties -Demilitarized zone [DMZ] Colson’s schedule -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -School issue -Activities ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 4m 52s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 ****************************************************************************** George Meany -Withdrawal from the Pay Board -James Rademacher’s criticism -Threatened withdrawal from the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] -International Brotherhood of Teamsters -Request for call to Colson -Support for the President 56 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Teamsters and building trades -Basis of labor support -Frank E. Fitzsimmons -Rademacher -Catalyst role -Talk with George T. Bell ITT case -Developments -Other issues -Food prices -Busing Busing -Richmond case -Importance -Media coverage -Department of Justice cases -Frequency -John D. Ehrlichman -Public attitude -Symbolic areas -Richmond and Detroit