Conversation 025-066

On June 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 2:18 pm to 2:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-066 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 25-66

Date: June 14, 1972
Time: 2:18-2:40 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 343-18]

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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 10/30/2017.]
[Unintelligible]
[025-066-w001]
[Duration: 21m 51s]

     William P. Rogers
          -Meeting with the President
          -Press conference

     Questions for Charles W. Colson
          -Responses

     Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]

     Labor unions
          -William P. Rogers’s speeches

     William P. Rogers
          -Call from Charles W. Colson
          -Events in key states
                -Detroit
                -Chicago
                -New York City
                      -Night club
                      -Importance of doing event at night
                      -Night time shows
                -Cleveland
                -Columbus
                -Pittsburgh
                      -Foreign relations
                -Philadelphia

     Henry A. Kissinger
         -Speeches
               -Timing
         -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] Treaty

     George S. McGovern
         -Tough questions
         -Henry A. Kissinger
         -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
         -Statements
     Defense
          -Submarines
          -Carriers

     Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
         -Foreign policy ideology
               -George S. McGovern
         -Jewish votes

Manolo Sanchez enters the room at an unknown time.

     Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
         -Israel

     Jewish vote in California

     Sending unknown person out for campaign work
          -Places to visit
                -Detroit
                -The South
                -Ohio
                -Illinois
                -Pittsburgh
                -Rochester
          -Schedule
                -Democratic convention
                -Republican convention

     1972 campaign
          -Spiro T. Agnew
          -Franklin D. Roosevelt
                -History
                -Body part
          -Spiro T. Agnew
          -George S. McGovern
                -Numbers
          -George C. Wallace
          -Campaigning in Maine
          -William J. Fulbright
          -William P. Rogers

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