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Conversation 201-013

TapeTape 201StartSaturday, August 12, 1972 at 10:35 AMEndSaturday, August 12, 1972 at 11:11 AMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Colson, Charles W.Recording deviceCamp David Hard Wire
AudioNARA Description

On August 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 10:35 am to 11:11 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 201-013 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 201-13

Date: August 12, 1972
Time: 10:35 am - 11:11 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 137-8; three items have been withdrawn]
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Well, how are things going today?
Good.
Your tag is credibility.
Now, of course, we fill them up some this way.
It gets in as a fact that you've got to respond
He responded yet.
You can check the bios, I think.
I told him to check it.
There's the godsend.
And Ben Williams is thinking to listen to himself.
But that's all right.
Right ahead.
He ought to particularly get a defense expenditure in order to recover.
No draft.
We've got so many men out of the armed services.
We've got five men out of Vietnam.
We're not drafting any, no draftees in Vietnam.
And the number of draftees around is so many.
And it is going to be zero.
And that's a tremendous accomplishment.
We've got the campaign.
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