Conversation: 007-032
Prev: 007-031 Next: 007-033Start Date: 29-Jul-1971 8:00 PM
End Date: 29-Jul-1971 8:19 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:32:19
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:50:58
NARA Description:
On July 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 8:00 pm to 8:19 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-032 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 7-32
Date: July 29, 1971
Time: 8:00 pm - 8:19 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
Call from Charles W. Colson
Rose Mary Woods’ location
The President talked with Colson.
Colson's schedule
-Weather
Economic briefing by John B. Connally and George P. Shultz
-Senators reaction
-Charles H. Percy
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Robert P. Griffin
Colson's meeting with Hobart D. Lewis
-Forthcoming articles
-Martin S. Hayden (?) editorial
-China initiative
-Lewis
-Right wing reaction
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Book on trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Cuba comparison
Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Colson's call
-Coverage of the President
-Scene with little girl
-Robert Pierpoint narration
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-PRC
-Compared to John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Dan Rather
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-Coverage of economy
-Coverage of the President
-Impact of Frank Stanton meeting
-Human interest
-Eisenhower
-Capitol Hill
-Scene with little girl
-Walter Cronkite Conv. No. 7-32 (cont.)
-Note from the President
-Committee investigation
-Clarence J. ("Bud") Brown, Jr.
-Editorials
China initiative
-Lewis
-John G. Tower
-Peter H. Dominick
-Percy
-John A. Volpe
-Visit to Convention of Catholic Laymen
-Prayer for the President's journey for peace
Louis Harris polls
-Credibility
-New survey
-China initiative, economy
Colson's meeting with public information officers [PIOs]
-Economic news stories
-Wright Patman comments
-Depression of 1929
-Unemployment rate, 1960-1964
Economy
-American Society of Association Executives, July 27, 1971
-Machine tool industry
-Arthur F. Burns
-Positive statement
-Alan Greenspan calls to Colson
-Burns
-Retail sales
-Unemployment figures
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-Bureau of Labor Standards [BLS]
-Percentage
-Briefing reaction
-Connally
-Feedback
-Machine tool industry
-Connally
-Harris Conv. No. 7-32 (cont.)
-Consumers
-Retail sales
-Steel strike
-Automobiles
-Harris meeting with Colson
-Domestic Council poll
-Inflation
-Price breakdown
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Basic commodities
-Paul W. McCracken
-Food prices
-Farm prices
-Consumer market
-Transportation costs
-Basic commodities
-Inflation
-Compared to other countries
The President's schedule
Economy
-Capitol Hill
Spiro T. Agnew's trip
-Colson's talk with John A. Scali
-Press reports
-Newsweek
-Timing
-Agnew's constituency
-Scali
-Colson's talk with "an old line Democrat Italian politician from New England"
-Administration support
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)