Conversation 021-128

On March 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 11:19 pm to 11:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-128 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 21-128

Date: March 21, 1972
Time: 11:19 pm - 11:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

     International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
           -Typewriter
                -John D. Ehrlichman
           -Press
           -Congress
                -Hugh Scott briefing
                      -Policy committee Republican senators
                      -Hearings
                            -Democrats
           -Typewriter
                -Independent analysis
           -James O. Eastland
                -Jack N. Anderson [?]
                      -Press
                            -Blackout
                            -Letter
                                  -Scott
                            -Networks
                                  -Beard memorandum

     State Dinner for Nihat Erim
           -Mrs. and Mrs. Albert E. Sindlinger
                -Mrs. Sindlinger
                      -Parents
                           -Turkey
                -Pollster
                -Armenia

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     George Meany possible resignation from the Pay Board
         -Frank Fitzsimmons
         -Leonard Woodcock
         -Fitzsimmons’s talk to Colson
               -Meany
               -I[lworth W[Ilbur] Abel
               -Floyd E. Smith
         -Colson’s talk with George P. Shultz
         -The President’s view
               -Interest rates
         -Consumer Price Index [CPI]
         -Labor
         -Meany’s previous meeting with Shultz
         -Previous American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-
               CIO] convention
               -Miami
         -Woodcock
         -Fitzsimmons
         -Wage Board
         -Polls
               -Herbert Stein
                     -Michigan opinion survey
                           -Sindlinger
                                -CPI

     Colson’s health

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    Miami convention
        -White House investigation
             -Contributions
             -Corporations

    ITT case
         -Harold S. Geneen
              -Statement
                    -San Diego
                         -Beard memorandum

    Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 signing
         -Media coverage
         -Turkey
         -The President’s previous comments
              -Addicts
              -Government agencies
                    -Network coverage
                    -Public opinion
                          -Polls on drugs
                                -George C. Wallace
                                     -Florida

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