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Conversation: 376-001

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Start Date: 31-Oct-1972 4:10 PM

End Date: 31-Oct-1972 5:34 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

376-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 31, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:10 pm and 5:34 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 376-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 378-15/376-1

Date: October 31, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:10 pm and 5:34 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

[An unknown portion of this conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed.]


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        Issues
            -Richard M. Scammon’s view
                   -Canada
                       -Welfare
                       -University of Toronto
                       -Economy
                       -Race
                       -Vietnam
                       -Conservatives
            -Vietnam
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                    -"Peace is at hand"
                        -The President’s view
                -Negotiated settlement
                    -Timing
                        -Relative to 1972 election
                        -Interpretation
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Nov-03)

                              -Colson’s view
                 -Press coverage
                     -News summary
                 -George Meany, Frank E. Fitzsimmons
                     -Unhappiness with the settlement
                 -Colson's recent conversation with Jay Lovestone
                     -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Lovestone
                     -Lovestone’s reaction
                          -Coalition government in South Vietnam
                          -National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord

An unknown person talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:10 pm and 5:34
pm.

[Conversation No. 378-15/376-1A]

        The President's schedule
            -Telephone call

[End of telephone conversation]


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        Issues
            -Vietnam
            -Corruption
                -Administration handling
                        -Lawsuit
                            -Dwight C. Chapin
                                 -“Wait and see”

        Post-1972 election strategy
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                                  Tape Subject Log
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          -Television [TV] media
              -License renewals
                   -Washington DC, Jacksonville, Miami
                   -Challenges
                       -Federal Communications Commission [FCC] action
                   -FCC
                       -Dean Burch
                            -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                            -Primetime access rules
                                 -Statement
                                -National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC], CBS
                                -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
                   Requests to see Colson
              -CBS re-runs
                   -Morning segment
                       -Length
              -William S. Paley
              -New York trip
                   -Significance
                       -Networks
                            -CBS, NBC, ABC,
              -Equal time
              -Mood of the country
                   -Morality
                       -Press, Professors, “Jet Set”
                            -George S. McGovern
              -Feeling toward Administration
                   -Importance of issues


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         Campaign practices
            -McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver
                -Italian-Americans
                -Labor leaders
                     -Dayton
                -Walter Cronkite, Jr.
                     -CBS Evening News
                          -Organization of demonstrators, name-calling
                                 -Shriver’s October 29, 172 appearance in Albuquerque
                                 -Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver


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Colson left at 5:34 pm.