Conversation: 039-129
Prev: 039-128 Next: 039-130Start Date: 6-Jun-1973 8:46 PM
End Date: 6-Jun-1973 9:07 PM
Participants:
White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 6, 1973, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 8:46 pm to 9:07 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 039-129 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 39-129
Date: June 6, 1973
Time: 8:46 pm - 9:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
Incoming telephone call
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
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Watergate
-Colson’s interview with Howard K. Smith, June 5
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s conversation with President
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Watergate
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Reaction
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-American International Brotherhood of Teamsters negotiating
meeting
-Newspapers
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Press coverage
-Wiretaps by previous administrations
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Motives
-Colson’s interview with Smith
-Colson’s possible Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] interview
-Timing
-Compared with National Broadcasting Company [NBC], Today Show
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Conversation No. 39-129 (cont’d)
-Colson’s meeting with Congressmen
-Popular opinion of President
-Telephone calls to Colson’s office
-John N. Mitchell’s role
-Cover-up
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible allegations regarding President
-Conversation with President, March 21
-William O. Bittman
-Bittman
-Conversation with Colson
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21
-$120,000
-Receipt of funds
-Dean
-Credibility
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Archibald Cox and Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Colson’s law partners’ opinion
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Transcripts
-Possible allegations
-Motives
-White House response
-Role in White House
-Possible immunity
-Opinion of Earl J. Silbert and Seymour Glanzer
-Cox’s view
-Cox
-Possible examination of President’s papers
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view of popular opinion
-Colson’s assessment
-Popular opinion
-Background
-Selection by Elliot L. Richardson
-Mandate
-Senate
-Popular opinion
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-Harlow
-Sally Harmony
-Shredder
-Press coverage
-President’s involvement
-Dean
-Possible allegations
-Credibility
-Motives
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Role
-Perjury
-Orders to Colson regarding memoranda [memos]
-White House response
-Possible immunity
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Cox
-Prosecutors
-Possible resignation
-Glanzer and Silbert
-Contacts with Colson
-President’s involvement
-Washington Post story
-Cox
-Possible resignation
-Conversations with Dean
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Possible allegations
-Henry E. Petersen
-Smith’s question to Colson
-Intentions
-Contrasted with Europeans
-Conversations with Colson
-Public opinion
-Possible immunity
-Alternatives
-Popular opinion
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-Press
-Colson’s conversation with Louis P. Harris
-Sindlingers’ view
-Dean
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony by former staff members
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Colson
-Maurice H. Stans
-John N. Mitchell
-Colson
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Congressional response
-Max L. Friedersdorf’s efforts
-Colson’s phone calls
-Hugh Scott’s statement, June 5
-Popular opinion
-Colson’s conversation with David E. Bradshaw
-Attacks on President
-George S. McGovern supporters
-Cox and Samuel Dash
-Washington Post, New York Times, and television [TV] networks
-Popular mandate
-Cover-up
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson and Abe Fortas
-Walter Jenkins affair
-Attacks on President
-Motives
-Popular mandate
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Charles H. Percy’s reaction
-White House response
-Popular opinion
-Colson’s interview with Smith, June 5
-Reactions
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