Conversation: 131-025
Prev: 131-024 Next: 131-026Start Date: 18-May-1972 10:10 AM
End Date: 18-May-1972 10:33 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:39:13
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:01:57
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:10 am to 10:33 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 131-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 131-25
Date: May 18, 1972
Time: 10:10 am - 10:33 am
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Conv. No. 131-25 (cont.)
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See also Conversation No. 191-3]
Greetings
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President's schedule
-Possible visit to George C. Wallace
-Camp David
-Advantages and disadvantages
-Telephone call to Wallace
-Publicity
-Colson’s view
-Mrs. Wallace
-Appearance
-Advantages
-Preparation for Soviet summit
-Visit to Wallace
-Time spent
-Importance
-Timing
-Previous walk to Treasury Department
-Barry M. Goldwater's response
-Dangers
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Effect
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 131-25 (cont.)
-Hubert H. Humphrey's statement
-Publicity
Previous assassination attempts
-Colson's office's research
-James J. Kilpatrick column
-Price of free society
-Price of free society
-Arthur H. Bremer
-The President’s view
-Fate in other countries
-Price of permissiveness
-Lee Harvey Oswald
-Fate in other countries
-Bremer
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]) search of car
-George S. McGovern literature
-Publicity
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Wire service stories
-Wallace literature
US-Soviet Union summit
-President's previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Length
-Expected press response
-The President’s view
-Washington Post editorial
-Tone
-Administration campaign
-Time
-Tone of press statements
-Haldeman
-Time
Vietnam
-Cease-fire
-Doves
-Carl B. Albert's position
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 131-25 (cont.)
-Prognosis
-Albert
-Possible telephone call from President
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Importance of position
-Soviet summit
-Previous calls to Robert C. Byrd and Robert P. Griffin
-Albert
-Call
-Position
-Boggs
-Byrd resolution
-House Foreign Affairs Committee
-J. William Fulbright
-Byrd resolution
-Albert's and Boggs's support
-Effect
-Doves
-Vote in Senate
-Incumbent Democrats
-Administration campaign
-Motives
-Impact
-National sentiment
-Joseph Vicites
-Wichita
-Boise
-Albert and Boggs
-South Carolina legislature resolution
-Local actions
-Publicity
-Antiwar demonstrations
-Day
-Location
-Expectations
-New York Teamsters
-Peter J. Brennan
-Posters
-Television coverage
-Colson’s view
-Future action
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 131-25 (cont.)
-Ho Chi Minh's birthday
-Pilots
-Interviews
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Effect
-Morale
-Targets
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Colson’s view
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Public perceptions
-Future plans
-Bombing
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-Bombing and blockade
-Effect on North Vietnam and Hanoi
-Columns
-US public opinion
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Effect on critics
-Support for President
-Louis P. Harris
-John Cardinal Krol statements
-Publicity
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-Effect on Soviet summit
-The President’s view
1972 election
-Media campaign
-Timing
-President's accomplishments
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet relations
-Vietnam
-End of US involvement
-South Vietnam status
-Harris
-President as world leader
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 131-25 (cont.)
-Time
-Busing
-Timing
-Image