Conversation: 148-014
Prev:  148-013 Next: 148-015Start Date: 10-Oct-1972 9:44 PM
End Date: 10-Oct-1972 9:53 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On October 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 9:44 pm to 9:53 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 148-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 148-14 Date: October 10, 1972 Time: 9:44 pm - 9:53 pm Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 219-16] 1972 election -Melvin R. Laird’s response -George S. McGovern's foreign policy speech -Vietnam War -Description of North Vietnamese forces -“Peasant guerillas” -Armored divisions -Network appearances -John B. Connally -Expenses -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] 12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-06) -Washington, DC -National Broadcasting Company [NBC] -Connally's foreign policy broadcast -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Number of viewers -Colson’s previous conversation with Albert E. Sindlinger -The President's conversation with Tricia Nixon Cox -McGovern -Speaking voice -Issues -Prisoners of war [POWs], amnesty, communism, “peasant guerillas” -Cambodia -Numbers of North Vietnamese -Speech by Laird -Laos -Speech by William P. Rogers -Timing -Vietnam -Negotiations -Robert J. Dole -Statement -Hugh Scott -Statement -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Connally -Agnew -Possible reply -POWs -Amnesty -Cambodia -Laos -McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech -Colson’s conversation with Sindlinger -Vietnam -Administration’s stance on McGovern’s views -McGovern’s qualifications to be President -Vietnam -McGovern’s World War II experience -Fascism compared to communism -Speech viewership -Sindlinger 13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-06) -Prime time -Edmund S. Muskie’s speech of January 1972 -Vietnam negotiations