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Start Date: 5-Jan-1973 7:38 PM

End Date: 5-Jan-1973 7:58 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

160-002.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 7:38 pm to 7:58 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 160-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 160-2

Date: January 5, 1973
Time: 7:38 pm – 7:58 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 239-1]

       Colson’s activities

       Vietnam negotiations
            -The President’s statement
                  -William E. Timmons
            -Ronald L. Ziegler
            -Press coverage
                  -Ziegler’s press briefing
                  -Washington Star
                        -Colson’s view
            -Wire services
            -Ziegler
            -Washington Star
                  -Colson’s view
                  -Ziegler
            -Senate action
                  -Aid funding
                        -The President’s view
            -Henry A. Kissinger
                  -Public relations [PR]
            -John A. Scali
                  -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] material
                        -William A. Gill, Jr.
                                       -2-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. August-08)

                                                      Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

     -Press relations
           -White House Staff
           -Congress
                  -Timmons
     -Colson's call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
     -Hugh Scott
     -Gerald R. Ford
     -Democrats
           -The President’s view
           -Colson's call to Jay Lovestone
     -Albert E. Sindlinger
           -W. Richard Howard
     -Discussion of rationale for Congressional vote
     -Administration’s Congressional relations efforts
           -The President’s view
           -Colson’s staff
           -Campaign unit
                  -Post-election dismantlement
                  -Personnel
                        -Kenneth W. Clawson, Jr.
                        -Scali
                        -Desmond J. Barker, Jr.
                        -S. Steven Karalekas
                  -The President's previous conversation with Haldeman
                  -Election activities
                        -Colson’s activities
                        -Herbert R. (“Chief”) Rainwater
                               -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
                        -Joseph L. Vicides
                        -Patrick E. Carr
                  -Robert P. Griffin
                        -The President’s view

Public relations [PR] efforts
      -White House Staff
             -The President’s view
             -Colson
      -Instruction for Colson to talk with Haldeman
      -The President's conversation with Haldeman
                               -3-

     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. August-08)

                                               Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

-Bipartisan Congressional leaders breakfast
       -Ziegler
             -Statements to press
-Quality
-Colson's schedule
-Pre-election activities
       -Colson
       -George S. McGovern
-Congressional Democrats
       -The President’s view
       -Ford
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Colson
-Clawson
-White House strategy sessions
       -Clawson
       -Barker
-Haldeman
-The President’s view
       -John D. Ehrlichman
       -George P. Shultz
       -Kissinger
       -Ehrlichman
             -Colson’s view
             -Kissinger
-Scali
       -Kissinger
-White House staff reorganization
       -Colson’s view
-Herbert G. Klein
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Shultz, Roy L.Ash, Kissinger
-Baroody, Clawson
-Ziegler
-Howard
       -Colson’s view
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
       -Writing
                                       -4-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. August-08)

                                                        Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

           -Efforts in campaign
           -Price
     -Strategy
           -Haldeman
           -Baroody
                  -Buchanan
     -Staff needs
           -Purpose
                  -Colson’s view

Senate action on cut off of funds for Vietnam
     -Lovestone’s comments
            -George Meany
     -Lovestone’s view

Administration objectives
    -Colson’s view

Vietnam settlement
     -Efforts to end the war
           -The President's statement at bipartisan Congressional leaders breakfast
                  -Colson’s view
                  -Timmons
                  -Ziegler
                        -Statement to press
                              -The President’s view

Haldeman's duties
     -Reorganization
           -Appointments
     -1973 Inauguration activities
     -Public relations need
           -The President’s view
                  -1972 campaign
     -Relationship with Congress
           -Ford
           -Jack R. Miller
     -Public relations efforts
           -Colson's duties during the campaign
                                              -5-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. August-08)

                                                               Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

                         -Rainwater
                         -Vicides
                         -Carr
                         -Scott
             -Colson’s view
             -White House staff
                  -Need for public relations
                         -Military aides
                         -Secret Service
                         -The President’s conversation with Haldeman

       Vietnam settlement
            -Negotiations
                  -PR
                  -Kissinger
                        -Washington Star
                             -Ziegler
                             -Headline
                                   -The President’s view

[The following portion of the conversation is included in RG 460,WSPF; there are no transcripts
available.]

       Logs on telephone calls
            -Kissinger
                   -Results
                        -Rowland Evans
                        -Joseph C. Kraft
                        -Jerrold L. Schecter
                        -Kraft
                               -Conversation with Kissinger
                               -New York Times column
                        -Instructions for Colson
                               -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
                        -Kraft
                               -Kissinger’s conversation with Colson
                               -Column
                               -Colson
                               -Schedule
                                                -6-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. August-08)

                                                            Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

                                     -Trip to Paris
                               -Telephone call to Kraft
                                     -Outgoing calls
                               -Haldeman

[RG 460 portion ends]

       PR
             -Vietnam war
                   -Possible settlement
                         -The President’s view
                         -Lovestone