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Conversation: 505-013

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Start Date: 26-May-1971 1:41 PM

End Date: 26-May-1971 2:02 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Colson, Charles W.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:06:52

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:31:33

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NARA Description:

On May 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:41 pm to 2:02 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 505-013 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 505-13

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 1:41 pm - 2:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

     Killing of policeman in New York
           -President’s view
                 -White House staff inaction
                       -Contacting widows
                 -Washington, DC police shooting
                 -Race
           -White House response
                 -Colson's response
                       -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] involvement
                 -Public action
                 -Justice Department
                 -Colson's response
                       -Funeral
                       -President's call to Edward J. Kiernan
                             -Leak to New York Daily News
                 -Exploitation of issue
                 -Justice Department
                 -Richard S. Schweiker
                 -Richard A. Moore
                 -Justice Department
                 -Possible conspiracy
                 -Justice Department
                       -Call to John W. Dean, III
                             -Legal basis
                                   -Revolutionary conspiracy
                                   -Smith Act
                 -Need for action
           -J. Edgar Hoover
                 -Public opinion
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 9/08)



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Privacy]
[Duration: 37s ]


                                                              Conv. No. 505-13 (cont.)
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    Killing of policeman in New York
          -Need for legislation
          -Justice Department
                -Bureaucracy
                -Dean
                -Smith Act
          -FBI involvement
          -Richard G. Kleindienst
          -Justice Department
                -Constitutional rights
          -President's announcement
                -Bombing, 1970
          -Nixon bill on shooting policemen
          -Blacks
                -Black Panthers
                -Black policeman
                -Support for President
                -Social issue
                      -Race and crime
                -Concern over incidents in community
                      -Interviews in Harlem
                -Possible visit to President
                -Schweiker's bill
                -Ronald L. Ziegler
                      -Press conference
          -Publicity from phone calls and letters
          -National fund for children
                -Scholarships
          -Moore
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 9/08)



     -President’s position
     -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
           -Position
           -Washington, D.C. police
     -James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. column
           -Mailing
           -Edmund S. Muskie
                 -Demonstrators                          Conv. No. 505-13 (cont.)
                      -(Madame) Nguyen Thi Binh
                      -Hanoi

Congress
    -Amendments
          -Draft
          -Edward W. Brooke
          -Robert P. Griffin
          -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
          -Peace issue
    -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
          -J. William Fulbright quote
                -William S. White
                      -Support
          -Democratic presidential candidates
                -Hubert H. Humphrey
                -George S. McGovern
                -Muskie
                -Antiballistic Missiles [ABM]
                -Fulbright
                      -White
                      -Quote
    -ABM
          -Vote
                -Draft
                -Possible political impact
          -Doves
          -President's statement on SALT, May 20, 1971
          -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Colson's talk
                      -White
                -Joseph C. Kraft
          -Colson's note to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Article on ABM
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)



                     -Democrats
                     -Unknown person’s column
                     -Washington Post
                     -Democrats
                           -ABM vote
                                -Disarmament
                -Arms control
                -Colson's meeting with Brooke                    Conv. No. 505-13 (cont.)
                     -Possible foreign policy speech by Brooke
                     -Brook’s position on ABM
                     -National Security Council [NSC]
                -Vote
                     -Timing
                     -House
                     -Senate
                     -SALT negotiations
                           -Public attention


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 9m 26s ]


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Colson left at 2:02 pm.