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Conversation: 841-003

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Start Date: 24-Jan-1973 8:12 AM

End Date: 24-Jan-1973 8:28 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

841-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 24, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:12 am to 8:28 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 841-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 841-3

Date: January 24, 1973
Time: 8:12 am - 8:28 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

       Colson's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

       Press relations
             -Suggested story
                    -Patrick J. Buchanan
                    -Helen A.Thomas
             -Kenneth W. Clawson
             -William J. Baroody, Jr.
             -Herbert G. Klein
             -John A. Scali
             -Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
             -Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
             -Edmund S. Muskie
             -Frank F. Church
             -Reports of popular reaction to Vietnam settlement announcement
             -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
             -Coverage of the President's speech
                    -"Today Show"
             -John G. Tower
             -Washington Post
                    -David S. Broder
             -Barry M. Goldwater
             -Spiro T. Agnew
                    -New York Times
                    -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
             -Robert S. Dole
             -Input by scholars
             -Herman Kahn, Glen Campbell, Bob Kintner
             -Georgetown Center for International Studies
             -Allan Wallace
             -Kingman Brewster, Jr.
             -John Cardinal Krol
                                               -3-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                            Conversation No. 841-3 (cont’d)

                   -Henry C. Cashen, II

       Vietnam settlement
            -Henry A. Kissinger
                   -Joseph C. Kraft
            -Melvin R. Laird
            -Baroody
            -“Hardhats”
            -Scali
            -George P. Shultz
            -Peter J. Brennan
                   -“Hardhats”
                   -George Meany

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:12 am.

       The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:28 am.

       Vietnam settlement
            -The President's speech
                   -Compared to Inaugural speech
            -Prisoners of War [POW] wives
                   -Phyllis Galanti
                   -Evelyn Grubb
            -Press relations
            -Scali
            -Klein

Colson left at 8:28 am.