{"conversationCode":"025-066","tapeNumber":25,"conversationNumber":66,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-025-066","startDateTime":"1972-06-14T18:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-14T18:40:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Jun-1972","startTime":"2:18 PM","endDate":"14-Jun-1972","endTime":"2:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;","description":"On June 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 2:18 pm to 2:40 pm. 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Colson\n          -Responses\n\n     Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]\n\n     Labor unions\n          -William P. Rogers’s speeches\n\n     William P. Rogers\n          -Call from Charles W. Colson\n          -Events in key states\n                -Detroit\n                -Chicago\n                -New York City\n                      -Night club\n                      -Importance of doing event at night\n                      -Night time shows\n                -Cleveland\n                -Columbus\n                -Pittsburgh\n                      -Foreign relations\n                -Philadelphia\n\n     Henry A. Kissinger\n         -Speeches\n               -Timing\n         -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] Treaty\n\n     George S. McGovern\n         -Tough questions\n         -Henry A. Kissinger\n         -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson\n         -Statements\n\f     Defense\n          -Submarines\n          -Carriers\n\n     Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson\n         -Foreign policy ideology\n               -George S. McGovern\n         -Jewish votes\n\nManolo Sanchez enters the room at an unknown time.\n\n     Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson\n         -Israel\n\n     Jewish vote in California\n\n     Sending unknown person out for campaign work\n          -Places to visit\n                -Detroit\n                -The South\n                -Ohio\n                -Illinois\n                -Pittsburgh\n                -Rochester\n          -Schedule\n                -Democratic convention\n                -Republican convention\n\n     1972 campaign\n          -Spiro T. Agnew\n          -Franklin D. Roosevelt\n                -History\n                -Body part\n          -Spiro T. Agnew\n          -George S. McGovern\n                -Numbers\n          -George C. Wallace\n          -Campaigning in Maine\n          -William J. Fulbright\n          -William P. Rogers\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["025-066.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:36:35","tapeEnd":"02:58:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Colson, Charles W."],"prevCode":"025-065","nextCode":"025-067","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.66,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Charles Colson strategized on campaign messaging and public relations ahead of the 1972 election. They discussed coordinating campaign appearances and speeches for administration officials, including William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger, to emphasize foreign policy successes and contrast the administration's platform against George McGovern. 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