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Conversation 297-012

TapeTape 297StartThursday, November 11, 1971 at 9:13 PMEndThursday, November 11, 1971 at 9:21 PMTape start time00:16:20Tape end time00:27:06ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Colson, Charles W.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AI Summary

President Nixon and Charles Colson discuss ongoing organizational tasks and the management of sensitive information reaching the press. The dialogue touches upon the public's uncertainty regarding the administration’s Phase 2 economic policies and the origins of a leaked story involving the White House. The President concludes by confirming that a specific administrative action or announcement is scheduled to take place the following evening.

Phase 2 economic policyPress relationsInformation managementWhite House administration
AudioNARA Description

On November 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:13 pm to 9:21 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 297-012 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 297-12

Date: November 11, 1971
Time: 9:13 pm - 9:21 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

Charles W. Colson talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 14-81]
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
Okay.
And everybody in the audience right now.
Right.
I don't know if this is true, but we've got to be real with that in mind.
We will, but that's going to take us three more weeks, you know.
Give me a little bit, uh... All right, back to the house.
Of course, my neighbor's boxing.
I love a lot of poker, so...
Try to ease down there with him all the time.
All right, great work.
and it'd be up the next day when it's up 11.5 degrees, and it'd be already at 8 or correct.
Well, I don't know what it is.
Well, that's good.
Well, we've got it back in the can now.
You know what?
How did the story get out to the effect that he had, you know, White House important to go up there or something like that?
It was somewhere.
I don't know.
I don't know.
He kind of burned it, I'm sure.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's such a weird group.
Uncertainty over phase 2 huh?
Yeah.
Good.
Good, okay.
That's right.
Well, don't worry about that.
We're going to do it tomorrow evening.
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