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Start Date: 29-Nov-1972 10:10 AM

End Date: 29-Nov-1972 1:47 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

156-014.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:10 am and 1:47 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 156-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 156-14

Date: November 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:10 am and 1:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Jan.-08)

                                                           Conversation No. 156-14 (cont’d)

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 232-7]

       Second term reorganization
            -Appointments
            -Peter J. Brennan
                  -Meeting with press
                         -Preparations
                                -Calls
                                       -George P. Shultz
                                       -George Meany
                                       -Victor Riesel
                                             -Advanced stories
            -The President’s meeting with Colson, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D.
             Ehrlichman
                  -Shultz
                  -John B. Connally
                  -Henry A. Kissinger
                  -Planning
                         -Political operation
                         -House of Representatives
            -Colson’s schedule
                  -Brennan
                  -Personnel assignments
            -George D. Webster
                  -Appointment
            -Richard G. Kleindienst
                  -Erwin N. Griswold
                         -Age
                         -Letter from Webster
                                -Harvard Law School Faculty
                                       -Support for George S. McGovern
                                -Ehrlichman
                         -Retention
                  -Retention
                         -Hearing
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Jan.-08)

                                                              Conversation No. 156-14 (cont’d)

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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

      1972 election
           -Final figures
                  -Secretaries of state
                  -Certification
                         -Absentees
                  -Problems
                  -Percentage
                         -George S. McGovern
                         -John G. Schmitz
                  -Illinois
                  -Certification
                  -Adjustments
                         -Alaska
                  -Richard M. Scammon
                  -The President’s percentage
                         -Annoucement
                         -Press reports
                         -Publicity
                               -Patrick J. Buchanan’s article on McGovern
                                     -New York Times
                                     -Response
                                     -Theme
                                            -“Dirtiest campaign in history”
                                     -Richard Wilson
                                     -Howard K. Smith
                                     -New York Times
                                            -Editorial
                                     -Quality
                                     -Impact
                                     -The President’s reading file
                                            -Florida
                                            -News summary

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                             Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. Jan.-08)

                                                   Conversation No. 156-14 (cont’d)


Second term reorganization
     -Brennan
           -Appointment
                 -Advantages
           -Characterization
     -The President’s schedule
     -Colson’s assignments
           -Personnel lists
                 -Exclusions
           -The President’s foundations
           -Personnel
                 -Retentions
     -Cabinet
           -Claude S. Brinegar
                 -Department of Transportation
           -John A. Volpe
                 -Ambassador to Italy
           -Brinegar
                 -Irish-American
                 -Catholic
                 -German-American
           -Robert J. Dole
           -John A. Scali
                 -United Nations [UN] ambassador
                 -Italian-American
                 -Catholic
                 -Democrat
     -Catholic
           -Roy L. Ash
     -Subcabinet
           -South
                 -Charles R. Snyder [?]
                 -Weldon L[amar] Mathis
           -Women
           -Blacks
                 -Women
                        -Jewell S. Lafontant
                        -UN
     -Brennan
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Jan.-08)

                                                         Conversation No. 156-14 (cont’d)

                  -Frank E. Fitzsimmons
                  -Paul Hall

       New Majority
           -Labor
                 -Gerald R. Ford
                      -Hall
                      -National Labor Relations Board [NLRB]
                             -Changes
                             -Brennan
                      -Anti-labor legislation
                      -John H. Fanning
                             -Appointment

       Colson’s schedule
            -Florida trip
                  -Arrangements
                         -Haldeman
                         -Patricia Colson