Conversation: 372-026
Prev:  372-025 Next: 372-027Start Date: 25-Oct-1972 12:29 PM
End Date: 25-Oct-1972 1:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On October 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:29 pm to 1:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 372-026 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 372-26 Date: October 25, 1972 Time: 12:29 pm - 1:10 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Charles W. Colson. Watergate -Ronald Ziegler's statement -Washington Post article on Haldeman and campaign espionage -Testimony -White House response -Secret fund -Washington Post -Dwight L. Chapin -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Chapin's secretary -Nellie L. Yates -Newsweek -Public opinion -White House response -Watergate allegations -Clark MacGregor -Press conference -Ziegler George S. McGovern's campaign practices -Demonstrators -Tricia Nixon Cox, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew 24 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Press coverage -The President’s recent trip to New York -Response -Robert J. Dole's statement -Surrogates -Press coverage -Donald F. Rogers -Hearsay -Tricia Nixon Cox's reaction -Television [TV] exposure -John A. Volpe -Patricia Ann (Hughes) -Colson -National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] -Columbia Broadcasting Corporation [CBS] -Colson’s view -Violence, damages -Republican National Convention -San Francisco -Anti-free speech stance -McGovern’s silence ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 11m 36s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Campaign issues -McGovern’s policies -Higher taxes, higher prices, unemployment, welfare -Defense budget -Agnew’s speech in New York -Jobs 25 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Property value -Donald H. Rumsfeld -George P. Shultz’s statements -Colson’s conversation with Shultz -Higher prices, higher taxes, welfare -Recession -Agnew -Defense industries -Strategy -Advertising -Tone -Democrats -Voting options -Amnesty issue -McGovern -R. Sargent Shriver -Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman -R. Sargent Shriver -Attack on John B. Connally -Welfare and blacks -Effectiveness -New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan -Italian-Americans -Naval base -Re-election committee -Unknown person’s speech -Press -California -Haldeman -Franklyn C. (“Lyn”)Nofziger -Republicans -Ronald W. Reagan -Reagan -McGovern’s budget policies -Rodgers’s response -Defense cuts -Effect on jobs -B-1, North American Rockwell, Lockheed, Northrop, General Dynamics -International Brotherhood of Teamsters -Analogy to Massachusetts 26 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -1960 election -Brochures -Leverett Saltonstall -Defense contractors -Lawrence -Impact -Advertisements -Rogers -Aerospace workers -Southern California ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 6m 9s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** Press relations -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] -Veterans benefits bill signing ceremony, ) October 24, 1972 -[Larry Kirk] -Radio -Wire service photograph -Washington Star, Washington Post Campaign practices -Press coverage -Tricia Nixon Cox and demonstrators -NBC -Mrs. Colson -CBS -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins's photographs -Subjects -McGovern 27 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Hobart Rowen’s son [James Rowen] -Article about radicalism -Dole -Forthcoming TV appearance -Questions about finances and campaign practices -Demonstrators -Henry Kimelman -Foreign contributors -Investment trust -Tax shelter -War record -Biography -Joe Bottum -Karl E. Mundt -Adolf Hitler statement -Ku Klux Klan [KKK] charge -Mundt Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:29 pm. The President’s schedule Bull left at an unknown time before 1:10 pm. -Comparison of Ho Chi Minh to George Washington -American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL- CIO] -George Meany -1962 Senatorial campaign -McGovern’s position in Food-for-peace program -1971 allegation -Minnesota -Dole’s response -Communication with the White House ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [Personal returnable] 28 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) [Duration: 47s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 ***************************************************************** Colson left at 1:10 pm.