Conversation: 015-052
Prev: 015-051 Next: 015-053Start Date: Friday, November 19, 1971 12:27 AM
End Date: Friday, November 19, 1971 12:40 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:20:27
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:34:07
NARA Description:
On November 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 7:27 pm to 7:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-052 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 15-52
Date: November 19, 1971
Time: 7:27 pm - 7:40 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
Television coverage of American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO] convention
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Dan Rather
-The President's speech
-Laughter
-George Meany letter
-Rather
-Comments
-CBS
-George S. McGovern
-Reaction
-Meany
-Meany
-Demeanor
-John W. Chancellor
-Rather
-CBS compared to NBC, ABC
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-The President's confrontation with labor
-Departure from Florida
-Associated Press [AP] dispatches and reporters
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Weather
-Edmund S. Muskie
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 15-52 (cont.)
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-Event at Senesta [sp?] Hotel, Key Biscayne
-Reporters
-Ziegler
-Knowledge of the President's schedule
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Invitation to Teamsters convention
-Meany
Meany
-Reception of the President at convention
-John B. Connally's response
-James D. Hodgson's response
-Audience
-The President's speech
CBS
-Rather
-Internal fight
-Frank Stanton
-Richard S. Salant
-Daniel L. Schorr episode
-Ziegler
-Instructions regarding Rather
-Schorr
-Report on the President's trip to convention
-The President's return to Washington, DC
-Classical Khmer Ballet
-Stay in Bahamas
-CBS report
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 15-52 (cont.)
-The President's reception at convention
-Ziegler
-Weather
Television footage of convention
-The President
-Meany
-Pay raise
-Wage-price guidelines violation
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Jay Lovestone
-Laurence H. Silberman
-Jack Ryan
-John A. Scali's views
CBS
-Schorr
-Market share
-Coverage of the President's convention speech
-Public reaction