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Start Date: 2-Nov-1971 10:50 AM

End Date: 2-Nov-1971 10:59 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:16:24

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:26:03

611a.mp3

611b.mp3

611c.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:50 am to 10:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 611-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 611-4

Date: November 2, 1971
Time: 10:50 am - 10:59 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)                  Conv. No. 611-3 (cont.)




National economy
     -Pay Board
           -Colson's schedule
                 -George P. Shultz
                 -Frank E. Fitzsimmons
                 -Jay Lovestone
           -Business representatives' efforts
           -Wage contracts
                 -Shultz
                       -1971 increases
                             -1972 standard
                 -Freeze period
                       -Deferred increases
                 -Shultz's possible meeting with George Meany
                 -Shultz’s view
                       -Employers' possible actions
                             -Deferred increases
                                  -Strikes
                                        -Steel industry
           -Strategy
                 -Timing
           -Meany's possible actions
                 -Timing
                       -Convention
           -The President's schedule
                 -Arnold R. Weber, Shultz and Colson

James R. Hoffa
     -Executive clemency
          -Timing
                -Parole Board
          -Justification
     -Parole Board
          -John N. Mitchell
                -Fitzsimmons
                       -Alleged commitment
                            -August 15, 1971 announcement
     -Executive clemency
          -Building trades unions
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)            Conv. No. 611-4 (cont.)



                -John D. Ehrlichman

     Option paper
          -Peter M. Flanigan
          -Oil
          -Meeting
          -Effects
                -Labor support
                     -Building trades
                     -Fitzsimmons
                     -Meany

     National economy
          -Pay Board
                -Shultz
                     -Business members
                -Importance to the President's economic program
                     -New economic policy
                           -Tax
                           -Surcharge
                           -International monetary policy
                -Public impact

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

     William McMahon's arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:59 am.

     Colson's schedule
          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Weber, Shultz and Donald H. Rumsfeld

Colson left at 10:59 am.