Conversation: 040-003
Prev: 040-002 Next: 040-004Start Date: 10-Jun-1973 11:05 PM
End Date: 10-Jun-1973 11:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 11:05 pm to 11:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 040-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 40-3
Date: June 10, 1973
Time: 11:05 pm - 11:35 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
President’s schedule
-Florida
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-3 (cont’d)
-Economics
-Vietnam negotiations
-Paris
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
Press relations
-Television [TV]
-Print
-Soviet summit
-Economic controls
President’s visit to Florida
-[Florida Technical] University
-Melvin R. Laird and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Roles on White House staff
-Significance
-President’s influence
-Laird’s return to the White House staff
Watergate
-New York Times
-Colson’s interviews
-Dan Rather
-[First name unknown] Sargent
-Garrick Utley
-Howard K. Smith
-President’s knowledge
-Colson’s anger
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. Committee hearings
-Possible appearance by Colson
-President’s attention
-Maurice H. Stans
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-John W. Dean, III
-Colson
-Dean
-Transactional immunity
-Use immunity
-Fifth Amendment
-Effect
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-3 (cont’d)
-Use immunity
-Consequences
-Dean
-Attack on Charles R. Richey
-Reason
-Picture in New York Times, June 10
-Antagonists
-Colson
-Dean
-John D. Ehrlichman
-New York Times stories
-Missing files
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Colson’s interview
-Possible warning to President concerning John N. Mitchell
-President’s knowledge
-Mitchell and senior aides
-President’s views concerning campaign committee
-Radio and TV coverage
-Mitchell
-Dean
-Colson
-Interviews
-Knowledge
-President’s knowledge
-Colson
-Interviews
-Conversations with President
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible appearance
-Interviews with staff
-Subpoena of files
-White House files
-Brookings Institution
-Colson’s place on witness list
-Reason
-Ervin Committee
-Targets
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-3 (cont’d)
-President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell
-Haldeman, Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Possible testimony
-Privilege or immunity
-Mitchell
-Magruder’s possible testimony
-Dean
-Possible transactional immunity from Archibald Cox
-Use immunity
-Dean
-Statements
-Approach
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Brookings Institution
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-Reasons
-Possible deal with prosecutors
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Cox’s views on television
-Possible effect on trials
-Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean
-Colson
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] interview
-President’s involvement
-Dean
-Attorneys’ statements
-Memoranda
-Tapes
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possession of documents
-Leaks
-Ervin Committee
-Colson’s interview with staff
-Effects
-Samuel Dash
-Staff’s reaction
-Prospects
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement, June 10
-Forthcoming Brezhnev Summit
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-3 (cont’d)
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony of Mitchell, Haldeman, and
Ehrlichman
-New York Times
-Reaction of Colson’s friends in Middleburg
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell appearances before Ervin Committee
-Brezhnev
-White House response
-National economy
-Brezhnev
-Energy
-Gasoline shortage
-Economy
-Foreign affairs
-Effect on Watergate
-President’s role
-Colson’s role
-Haldeman’s role
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Colson’s conversations
-Robert J. Dole
-Colson’s mail
-Smith, American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Dole’s mail
-Watergate
-June 10 “Meet the Press” appearance
-Congressional attitude
-Attacks on President
-TV networks, New York Times, Washington Post
-Hugh Scott’s statement
-Jackson
-Foreign policy views
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Jewish policy
-Statement concerning Brezhnev, June 10
-Effect
-J. William Fulbright
-White House response
-Popular opinion
-Dole
-Statements
-Scott
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-3 (cont’d)
-Statement
-Dean
-Allegations concerning President
-Role in White House
-Conversations concerning the President
-Time
-Content
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Mitchell
-Credibility
-Washington Post, New York Times, TV networks
-Image
-White House portrayal
-Desire for immunity
-Fifth Amendment
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Mitchell
-Colson
-Smith interview
-Calls from press
-Reason
-New York Times story coverage
-TV networks
-Invitation from “Face the Nation”
-Withdrawal
-New York Times story, June 10
-Effect on President, Mitchell
-Chris Leyden [sp?]
-Popular opinion
-Newspapers
-Mail
-Colson’s conversation with Albert E. Sindlinger
-Poll results
-Jackson’s statement
-White House response
-Colson’s actions
-Jackson’s statement
-President’s handling
-Ervin, Colson, Dean, Dash, Cox
-President’s position
-Dean
-Actions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-3 (cont’d)
-Compared to James W. McCord, Jr.
-Possible immunity
-Image
-New York Times image, June 10
-Role in White House
-Knowledge