Conversation: 154-009
Prev: 154-008 Next: 154-010Start Date: 24-Sep-1972 11:56 AM
End Date: 24-Sep-1972 12:46 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On September 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 11:56 am to 12:46 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 154-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 154-9
Date: September 24, 1972
Time: 11:56 am - 12:46 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See Conversation no. 213-19]
The President's meeting with laborers
-Press coverage by the Washington Evening Star
-Photographs
-Effect
-Type of story
-George Sherman
-Dissemination
1972 campaign issues
-Amnesty issue
-The President's analysis
-Service to the country
-Idea of “moral” compared with “immoral” war
-World War II deserters
-Jewish press
-George S. McGovern
-Interview of McGovern
-Colson's analysis
-McGovern's appearance
-Problems stated
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Conversation between the President and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Complaint about buying television time
-Buying time on television situation
-Amount of time
-Refusal to the Democrats
-Robert J. Dole
-Network decision
-Amount of money for one-half hour of television
-McGovern's campaign
-Idea of frustration among public supporters
-Idea of defensiveness by McGovern
-Richard G. Valeriani
-Idea of desperation
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak study
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Richard M. Scammon, Oliver Quayle
-Possible effect on McGovern
-McComb County, Michigan
-Demographics
-Democrats
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-Interviews
-Results
-Scammon
-Type of individuals interviewed
-Previous supporters of Hubert H. Humphrey
-Busing issue in McComb County, Michigan
-Interview results
-Issues
-The President's foreign policy
-Soviet Union
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Clean water bill
-Possible veto
-McGovern's credibility
-Approval rating for the President
-Similarity to Louis P. Harris poll
-McComb County interview percentage results
-Colson's analysis
-The interview as reaching the silent majority
-Reaching the upper middle class
-Signing the water bill, the amnesty issue, the busing issue
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Issues
-Idea of sophisticated politics
-Watergate issue
-Wheat deal issue
-Result in election votes
-Comparison to Lyndon Johnson
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker and Walter W. Jenkins
-Results
-Scammon's analysis of campaign
-Type of situation
-Grain deal
-McGovern's position
-Results in poll figures
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