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Start 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

372-026.mp3

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
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               -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


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       Campaign issues
          -McGovern’s policies
              -Higher taxes, higher prices, unemployment, welfare
              -Defense budget
                   -Agnew’s speech in New York
                       -Jobs
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                        Tape Subject Log
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              -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
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                        -1960 election
                            -Brochures
                                 -Leverett Saltonstall
                                 -Defense contractors
                                 -Lawrence
                                 -Impact
                        -Advertisements
                            -Rogers
                            -Aerospace workers
                            -Southern California


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       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
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                 -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


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Colson left at 1:10 pm.