Conversation: 390-012
Prev: 390-011 Next: 390-013Start Date: 2-Nov-1972 5:12 PM
End Date: 2-Nov-1972 5:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; White House operator; Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan); Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; White House operator; Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan);Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On November 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:12 pm to 5:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 390-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 390-12
Date: November 2, 1972
Time: 5:12 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
1972 campaign
-Hecklers in Boston
-Response
-Press relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Double standard
-Violence
-Deprivation of speaker's rights
-Unknown person
-Colson’s conversation with George Gordon [?]
-Ziegler
-Robert J. Dole
-Herbert G. Klein
-Media and press coverage
-Boston
-Nassau rally
-Liberty Island
-San Francisco
-Liberty Island
-Washington Post and New York Times
-George S. McGovern
-Public reaction
-Colson’s recent conversation with John F. Collins
-Cab driver’s view
-Boston Herald Traveler, Boston Globe
-Bostonians’ view of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Apology
-Reaction of McGovern supporters
-McGovern’s response
-Television [TV] interview
-Washington Post
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 390-12 (cont’d)
-McGovern’s campaign
-Possible “bomb”
-Response
-Colson’s schedule
-Denver
-Dennis Davis [?]
-Speech to College Republicans
-Mrs. Nixon
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-The President’s campaign
-Error
-Democratic convention
-Minnesota
-Wisconsin
-South Dakota
-West Virginia
-Minnesota
-Wisconsin
-McGovern’s chances
-Hecklers in Boston
-Compared to Chicago
-Public reaction
-John B. Connally
-Departure from Democratic Party
-Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman
-McGovern
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-American people
-Goals in election
-Hecklers in Boston
-Media coverage
-Mrs. Nixon
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 390-12 (cont’d)
-Response
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with H.R. (“Bob”)
Haldeman
-Media coverage
-Wires
-Accusations that McGovern encouraging demonstrations against
First Family and surrogates
-Ziegler quotation
-Mrs. Nixon
-Klein
-Dole
-Agnew
-Number
-Impact
-Collins’ view
-TV advertisement
-Mrs. Nixon
-McGovern
-Hecklers
-Jerry Rubin
-McGovern
-Possible public statement
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[Begin item reviewed under deed of gift]
-Samuel Lubell interviews
-New Majority
-The President’s speech, “Look to the Future”
-Revisions
-Quotation
-Appeal for support
-Middle America
-Support for the President
-New areas
-Jews
-Economic issues
-Taxes
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 390-12 (cont’d)
-Democrats
-Losses
-New majority
-Republicans
-Lack of enthusiasm
-Liberals
-Italian-Americans
-Labor
-Catholics
-Voting
-Candidates
-Maryland
-Illinois
-New York
-Ticket splitting
-Albert E. Sindlinger polls
-Projections
-Democrats
-Voting patterns
-New York
The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:12 pm and 5:29
pm.
[Conversation No. 390-12A]
[See Conversation No. 32-151]
1972 campaign
-Connally
-Compared to the President
The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 5:29 pm and 5:31 pm.
[Conversation No. 390-12B]
[See conversation No. 32-152]
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 390-12 (cont’d)
Colson left at 5:30 pm.