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Conversation: 310-017

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Start Date: 23-Dec-1971 1:40 PM

End Date: 23-Dec-1971 2:40 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Colson, Charles W.White House operatorHall, Joan[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:23:26

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:27:25

310a.mp3

310b.mp3

310c.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, Joan Hall, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:40 pm to 2:40 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 310-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 310-17

Date: December 23, 1971
Time: 1:40 pm - 2:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.
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                                 Tape Subject Log
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Christmas

Government holiday, December 24th
    -Unknown store’s hours of operation

[Unintelligible]

George Meany [?]
     -Potential labor problems [?]

Murderers

Vietnam
     -Escapes

Meany [?]
    -Network coverage
          -Sympathetic
          -Eugenia Meany [?]
               -Illness

Unknown person’s meeting with Colson
    -Timing

Vice-President's speeches
     -Strength

Budget

Joseph C. Kraft
     -Previous conversation with Colson

Amnesty/pardon

John W. Chancellor interview [?]
     -Reactions
     -President’s style
           -Unknown person’s assessment of the President’s interview

Republican National Committee [RNC]
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 310-17 (cont.)



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 2m 59s ]


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Colson talked with the White House operator and with Joan Hall [?] at an unknown time
between 1:40 pm and 2:40 pm.

[Conversation No. 310-17A]

[See Conversation No. 17-3]

[End of telephone conversation]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration: 12s ]


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          -Edward M. Kennedy
               -President’s previous correspondence
               -President's ceremony for signing the National Cancer Act of 1971
                     -Colson's conversation with unknown man
                           -Kennedy
          -Colson's project
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                                    Tape Subject Log
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                                                               Conv. No. 310-17 (cont.)


              -Status
              -Response


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 1m 26s ]


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    Spiro T. Agnew
         -Working style
         -Changes in last two months
               -Attitude
         -Presidential assignment during Christmas
               -Cabinet meeting
         -John A. Scali


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 6m 7s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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    Watergate
        -Finance
              -Democrat candidates
        -Postcard mailing to Democrats
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                                                               Conv. No. 310-17 (cont.)


          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 15m 13s ]


An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:40 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:40 pm.


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     Watergate
         -Letter concerning Edmund S. Muskie and Meany
               -Labor
                    -New York
                    -Literature

     President's accomplishments
          -Strategy
          -People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
          -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit
          -Polls
                 -George H. Gallup
          -Harry S Truman [?]
                 -Comparisons [?]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 16m 34s ]
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                                                                Conv. No. 310-17 (cont.)



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    1972 Presidential campaign
         -Kennedy
               -Chappaquiddick
         -Strategy
               -Cabinet officers
                     -Press
               -Press conferences
                     -Washington newspapers
               -Calls to radio station
                     -Number


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 10s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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            -Strategy
                  -Cabinet officials
                       -Radio news programs
                             -Consumer Price Index [CPI]

    Press
            -Haldeman [?]
            -Washington Star
                 -Economic news
                      -Lee Cohn
            -New York Times
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                                                               Conv. No. 310-17 (cont.)



     Economy
         -Christmas sales
              -Sale of expensive items
         -American public opinion

Colson left at 2:40 pm.