Conversation: 039-106
Prev: 039-105 Next: 039-107Start Date: 6-Jun-1973 1:09 PM
End Date: 6-Jun-1973 1:38 PM
Participants:
White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 6, 1973, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 1:09 pm to 1:38 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 039-106 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 39-106
Date: June 6, 1973
Time: 1:09 pm - 1:38 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
Incoming telephone call
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See also Conversation No. 443-6A]
Greetings
The President conferred with Stephen B. Bull at an unknown time.
[Begin conferral]
[See Conversation No. 443-6]
[End conferral]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-106 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
Watergate
-Colson’s interview with Howard K. Smith
-President’s schedule
-Press coverage
-News summary
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
-President’s schedule
-Dinner
-Popular reaction
-Press attacks on President
-Daniel L. Schorr’s lead story on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS],
June 5
-President’s knowledge
-John D. Ehrlichman’s implication
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s testimony
-Gordon C. Strachan’s statement
-President’s contacts with Strachan
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Memoirs
-Lawyer’s motive
-President’s foreign policy activities in 1972
-Wiretapping
-Lawrence F. O’Brien
-President’s reaction, June 19
-White House staff involvement
-John W. Dean, III
-Contacts with President
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray’s confirmation
-Executive privilege
-Press conferences
-Immunity
-Colson’s conversation with President, March 21
-President’s investigation
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21
-$1,000,000
-Clemency
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-106 (cont’d)
-Dean
-Possible testimony
-Colson’s conversation with Joseph W. Alsop
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view of press treatment
-Public opinion
-Contacts with President
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Dean’s knowledge
-President’s investigation
-President’s conversation with Colson, March 21
-David Shapiro’s investigation
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Colson’s meeting with President, April 13
-Timing of immunity request
-Dean
-President’s investigation
-Goals of opponents
-White House staff
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Reaction
-West Coasters
-John Stafford
-Colson’s conversation with Max Friedersdorf
-Delivery of transcript to Congress
-Impeachment inquiry
-Samuel L. Devine
-Wiretaps
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower and
the President
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Press coverage
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Baltimore Sun
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Motives
-Colson’s conversation with unknown New York Times reporter
-Dean
-Possible White House response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-106 (cont’d)
-Haig’s assessment
-Possible testimony
-Lawyers
-Charles N. Shaffer
-“McGovern Democrat”
-Cover-up
-White House staff’s intentions
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-President’s advisors
-President’s knowledge
-President’s investigation
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Smith’s reaction
-Reaction
-Irv Kupcinet
-Request for interview
-CBS
-Timing
-New York Times
-Hugh Scott’s statement, June 5
-Press coverage
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Press
-Goals
-Dean
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Dean
-Role
-Magruder
-Possible documents
-Possible testimony
-Conversations with President
-Conversations with President
-Richard A. Moore, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, and Ehrlichman’s
presence
-Content
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Assistant’s call to Colson, June 5
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-106 (cont’d)
-Actions
-Possible actions
-Popular opinion
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Popular opinion
-Interest in testimony
-Women’s interest
-Press reaction
-Pat O’Hara’s call to Colson, June 6
-John Mulcahy
-Possible actions of former staff members
-Colson, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
-Press coverage
-Ehrlichman’s deposition
-Colson
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible accusations against him
-Actions
-President’s knowledge
-Conversations with President
-Dean
-Role
-Conversations with President
-President’s reaction
-Conversations with Colson
-Telephone call, March 21
-Telephone call to Colson in Boston, April 12
-Colson’s subsequent meeting with Shapiro and
Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s subsequent meeting with Haldeman and
Dean
-Dean’s subsequent meeting with United States attorney
-Conversation with prosecutors
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, Magruder
-White House response
-President’s activities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-106 (cont’d)
-Florida Technical University commencement
-Dirksen Research Center
-National economy
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
-Press
-Attitude
-White House response
-Public reaction
-White House response
-National economy
-Defense of President
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Colson’s conversation with Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Friedersdorf’s reaction
-Dissemination of reaction
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-Possible actions
-Relationship with Dean
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.
-Popular opinion
-Compared with Vietnam
-Press coverage
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Unknown man’s call to Colson
-Congress