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Start Date: 23-Jul-1972 10:52 AM

End Date: 23-Jul-1972 11:37 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Colson, Charles W.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:53:04

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:36:03

136a.mp3

136b.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:52 am to 11:37 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 136-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 136-19
Date: July 23, 1972
Time: 10:52 am – 11:37 am
Location: Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 196-3]

       Public relations
             -John B. Connally
                  -Schedule
                      -Meet the Press
                           -Colson’s efforts
                  -George S. McGovern
                      -Face the Nation
                  -Thomas F. Eagleton
                      -Issues and Answers
                  -Preparation for interview
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
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[Duration: 10m 46s    ]


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      Washington Star
           -Circulation among blacks
           -Washington Post
           -Management
               -New York Times
               -The President’s view

      Washington Post
           -Katharine L. Graham
           -Compared with Chicago Daily News
           -News coverage
               -Effect
           -Legislative leaders
               -Effect of news coverage
               -The President’s view
           -White House staff

      Previous meeting in State Dining Room
            -Colson’s view


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[Duration: 10m 11s    ]


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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Jan-02)


      George P. Shultz
           -Meeting with Robert W. Packwood
                -International Brotherhood of Teamsters
           -James D. Hodgson’s previous meeting with Packwood
           -George Meany
           -Laurence H. Silberman
           -Schedule

      Colson's conversation with Hodgson
           -Hodgson's press conference
                -Colson’s view
           -A Congressional vote
                -The President's view
                -Michael J. Mansfield
                -House Labor Committee
                    -[Carl D. Perkins]
                -West Coast dock strike
                -Democrats' actions


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[Privacy]
[Duration: 21s ]


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      Packwood
           -Colson's previous conversation with Hodgson
               -Need for press conference
               -Meeting with Packwood
           -New bill
               -The President’s view
           -Railroad Act
               -Meany
               -Reforms
               -Possible question in President's press conference
                    -Patrick J. Buchanan
           -Possible meeting with the President
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              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Jan-02)

     -Cabinet
          -White House staff
     -William E. Timmons
     -Statement
     -Lack of business support for President's policies
          -Railroad interests
          -Trucking interests
          -Vietnam
          -National defense
          -Compulsory arbitration
              -Farmers
                   -Grain sales
                        -Administration policies

Soviet grain shipments
     -Jesse M. Calhoon
     -Thomas W. Gleason
     -Colson’s previous meeting with Hodgson
          -Union cooperation
               -Longshoremen
               -Teamsters
               -Operating engineers
               -Seafarers
     -Shultz
          -Dock strikes
          -Union cooperation

Packwood
     -Teamsters
         -Einar O. Mohn
     -Press
         -Meany
         -Shultz
     -American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
     Organizations [AFL-CIO]
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Jan-02)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 9m 43s     ]


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