Conversation: 719-019
Prev: 719-018 Next: 719-020Start Date: 4-May-1972 12:56 PM
End Date: 4-May-1972 1:21 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Fitzsimmons, Frank E.; Schoessling, Raymond; Trerotola, Joseph; McCarthy, William J.; Mathis, Welon L.; Colson, Charles W.; White House photographer; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:54:28
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:20:27
NARA Description:
On May 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Raymond Schoessling, Joseph Trerotola, William J. McCarthy, Welon L. Mathis, Charles W. Colson, White House photographer, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:56 pm to 1:21 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 719-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 719-19
Date: May 4, 1972
Time: 12:56pm - 1:21 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Raymond Schoessling, Joseph Trerotola, William
J. McCarthy, Weldon L. Mathis, and Charles W. Colson; the White House photographer was
present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
Seating
-Arrangements
-Photographs
-A chair
Pay Board
-Meetings
-Work with International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-President's appreciation
-Controls
-Workability
Teamsters
-Contracts
-Chicago
-George P. Shultz
-Controversy
-Retroactivity
-Contracts
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 719-19 (cont.)
-West Coast
-Problems
-Harry Bridges
-Support for President
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 12:56 and 1:21 pm.
-Foreign policy support
-President's gratitude
-Past support for the President
-Dave Beck
-The President’s view
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-Labor movement
-Support for American values
-President's gratitude
-Fitzsimmons's statement
-George Meany's statement
-Political activities
-George S. McGovern
-Dave Leonard
-Appearance on television
-Affiliation
-Trip to Hanoi
-Harold Gibbons
-[Forename unknown] Caldwell
-Meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Le Duc Tho
-Support of coalition government
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 719-19 (cont.)
-Trip to Hanoi
-Gibbons
-Coaliton governments
-Problems with Communists
-Czechoslovakia
Organized labor
-Effects of Communists in unions
-International Labor Organization [ILO]
-[Forename unknown] Charles
-Activities in Europe
-Caldwell
-Discussion on plane
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Access to White House
-Partisanship
-Support of Democratic party
-President's relationship
-Fitzsimmons's relationship with the President
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[Duration: 2m 15s ]
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-Trerotola
-Peter J. Brennan
-The President’s view
-Construction trades
-Association with Teamsters
-Brennan
-[Forename unknown] Van Horne
-Rockefeller
-Brennan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 719-19 (cont.)
-Association with Teamsters
J. Edgar Hoover
-Age at death
-The President’s view
-Criticism
-Life magazine
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Jack N. Anderson
-Column
-Retention in office
-President's defense
-Career
-Criticism
Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-The President’s view
-Career
-Administrative assistant to Adm. Arthur W. Radford
-Character
-Tenure in office
-Meeting with the President
-Liaison with Colson
-Background
-Character
Demonstrators
-Position of Trerotola
-Incident at St. Patrick's Cathedral
-Mrs. Trerotola
-Picketing nuns
-Trerotola's conversation
-Anita Trerotola
-Nuns actions in cathedral
Vietnam
-Catholics in North Vietnam
-Killings in 1954
-North Vietnam victory in 1970s
-Consequences
-Lack of publicity
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 719-19 (cont.)
Support for the President
Gifts
Anecdote
-President's dinner for retired Congressmen
-John Sherman Cooper
-The President’s view
-Joke
Gifts
-For wives
-Ash trays
-Described
-For men
-Money clips
-Described
-Golf balls
-Golf
-Jim [Surname unknown]
Goodbyes
-Support for the President
-Communists
-Appreciation
Fitzsimmons, et al., left at 1:21 pm.