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Start Date: 24-Nov-1971 3:20 PM

End Date: 24-Nov-1971 3:35 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Colson, Charles W.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 05:22:48

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:37:32

624a.mp3

624b.mp3

624c.mp3

624d.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 24, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:20 pm to 3:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 624-028 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 624-28

Date: November 24, 1971
Time: 3:20 pm - 3:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

     Colson's staff

     The President's schedule
          -Foreign visits and visitors
               -Announcements
                      -France
                      -Great Britain
                      -Germany

     National economy
          -Money supply
                -The President's conversation with Arthur F. Burns
                     -Peter M. Flanigan
                                         49

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 624-28 (cont.)


                      -Letter writing campaign against Burns
                            -New Yorkers
                                  -Jews
     -Stock market
          -Colson's conversation with William H. Donaldson of Donaldson, Lufkin and
               Jenrette
          -Prospects for 1972
          -The President's conversation with Burns
               -International monetary situation
          -The President's labor policy
               -George Meany
                     -John B. Connally
               -Press report

Public relations
     -Previous speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
           Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
            -The President's conversation with his barber
            -Colson's conversation with his relatives
            -Possible letter to Meany
            -Press coverage
                 -Jim Naughton
                 -[Forename unknown] Gilbride of Associated Press [AP]
            -The President's demeanor
                 -Connally
                 -Democrats
            -Popular impression
                 -Louis P. Harris's views
                        -The President under pressure
                              -Trip to Caracas, Venezuela in 1958

Edmund S. Muskie
    -Supporters' meeting with Harris
         -Telephone polls in primary states
               -Popular impression
                    -Compared with the President

Public relations
     -Connally
     -Harris
            -Views regarding popular impression of the President
                                         50

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 624-28 (cont.)



Pending legislation
     -The President's conversation with Hugh Scott
     -Previous vote
     -Tax Bill
          -Financing presidential campaigns
                 -John D. Ehrlichman's work
                       -Possible veto
                 -Jews
                 -Effect
                       -The President’s view
                       -Colson’s view
          -Possible veto
                 -Ehrlichman's view
          -Financing presidential campaigns
                 -Effect
                       -Political party system
                             -George C. Wallace
                       -Possible repeal
                       -Colson's previous conversation with Ehrlichman
                       -Taxpayers
                             -Political affiliation
                       -Mechanism for receiving political contributions
                             -Internal Revenue Service [IRS] forms
                                   -Blacks
                                   -Effect on Republican Party
          -Possible House vote
                 -Colson's efforts
                       -Wallace
          -Democrats' motive
                 -The President’s view
                       -Wallace

Public relations
     -Previous visit to Washington Redskins practice session

National economy
     -The President's program
           -Popular impressions
                -Meany
                                               51

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 624-28 (cont.)


Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:20 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Henry A. Kissinger
               -NobuhikoUshiba

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.

     National economy

Colson left at 3:35 pm.