Conversation: 040-095
Prev: 040-094 Next: 040-096Start Date: Thursday, June 14, 1973 2:32 AM
End Date: Thursday, June 14, 1973 2:39 AM
Participants:
Colson, Charles W.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 13, 1973, Charles W. Colson and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone from 10:32 pm to 10:39 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 040-095 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 40-95
Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 10:32 pm - 10:39 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Charles W. Colson talked with the President.
Louis P. Harris
-Previous conversation with President
-President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Contracts with Harris and Albert E. Sindlinger
-George H. W. Bush
Harris and Sindlinger’s support for President
-Position
-Conversation with Colson
-National mood
-Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-President’s speech on economy
-Harris’s enthusiasm
-Watergate
President’s speech on the economy
-Sindlinger’s response
-Phase IV
-George P. Shultz
-Position
-President’s opposition
-Herbert Stein
-Position
-President’s opposition
-Sindlinger’s position on President’s policies
-Stein and Shultz’s position
-Disagreements with President
-Sindlinger
-Harris
-Colson
-Politics
-Public confidence
-Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-95 (cont’d)
-Food price inflation
National economy
-Stock exchange member firms
-New York, Houston
-Colson’s meeting with Brokers, June 12
-Watergate
-Stock broker enthusiasm for President’s economic plans
Watergate
-Press coverage
-President’s reaction
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Press
-Popular opinion
-Silent Majority
-Cover-up
-Press coverage
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Consequences
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] comparison
-Compared to Robert L. Vesco case
-Prosecution
-ITT and Vesco vases
-Need for White House statement
-Public Relations [PR]
-Elliott L. Richardson
-Tenure
-Actions
-President’s role
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s response
-Haig
-Colson’s support
President’s speech on the economy
-Effect
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-95 (cont’d)
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s opinion
-President’s tone
-Cockiness
Watergate
-Press portrayal of President
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Television [TV] networks
-Response
-TV speeches, press conferences
-John W. Dean, III
-Transactional immunity
-Effect
-Possible attacks
-Colson
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Question of Maurice H. Stans
-Edward J. Gurney