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Conversation 137-003

TapeTape 137StartFriday, August 11, 1972 at 6:14 PMEndFriday, August 11, 1972 at 6:35 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Colson, Charles W.Recording deviceCamp David Study Table
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On August 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 6:14 pm to 6:35 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 137-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 137-3

Date: August 11, 1972
Time: 6:14 pm - 6:35 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 201-1]

     [Unintelligible]

     William P. Rogers
          -W. Ramsey Clark
                -Remarks concerning the President’s Vietnam policies
                     -US casualties
          -George S. McGovern
                -John N. Mitchell

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Transcript (AI-Generated)

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What he said about Clark was just beautiful.
He said, to hear the voice of a former U.S. Attorney General, a man involved in the decisions which sent a half a million men to North Vietnam, now criticizing Nixon's policies while American airmen are still being killed in action, to me is contemptible.
To me it is beyond belief.
I would think the American people would be shocked.
He was really very good.
He didn't attack McGovern, but of course that's understandable.
We'll get Mitchell to do that tomorrow.
demand that mcgovern repudiate the uh right the statements
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