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Conversation: 137-008

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Start Date: 12-Aug-1972 10:35 AM

End Date: 12-Aug-1972 11:11 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

137-008.mp3

NARA Description:

On August 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:35 am to 11:11 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 137-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 137-8

Date: August 12, 1972
Time: 10:35 am - 11:11 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 201-13]

     Press relations
          -William P. Rogers
                 -Newspaper and television coverage

     R. Sargent Shriver
          -Melvin R. Laird
                -Platform committee testimony
                      -Laird’s previous briefing of Shriver
                          -Vietnamization
          -Credibility
          -Statement
          -Henry A. Kissinger
          -Rogers's opinion
                -Rogers’s talk with Colson, August 11, 1972
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                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. Mar-02)



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[Duration: 7m 33s ]


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    Press coverage of Watergate
         -Lawsuit
               -Washington Post
               -1701 [Pennsylvania Avenue, Republican National Committee headquarters]
                        story
               -New York Times
               -Wire services
               -Washington Post
                -Edward Bennett Williams


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration: 24m 9s ]


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    Public relations
         -Laird
                -Shriver
                -War issue
                     -George S. McGovern
         -Defense expenditures
         -Draft
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar-02)


                -Vietnam
                -Volunteer army
                -Young voters


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 16s ]


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