Conversation: 034-028
Prev: 034-027 Next: 034-029Start Date: Sunday, December 10, 1972 2:55 PM
End Date: Sunday, December 10, 1972 3:02 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On December 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 9:55 am to 10:02 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-028 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 34-28
Date: December 10, 1972
Time: 9:55 am - 10:02 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
-Colson’s schedule
-Trip to Princeton University
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
-Election of Robert S. Strauss
-Implications
-John B. Connally
-Future plans
-Support for Strauss
-Charles S. Snider
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-28 (cont’d)
-Opposition to Strauss
-Vote totals
-Jean Westwood
-South
-Connally
-Support for party reforms
-Labor support
Labor
-Support for the President
-George Meany
-Peter J. Brennan
-Leonard Woodcock
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Paul Hall
-Meany
-Brennan
-Accommodation
Democratic chairmanship
-Election of Strauss
-Left wing press reaction
-Unification of Democratic Party
-Remaining divisions
-Problem for Connally
The President’s successor
-Alternatives to Connally
-William E. Brock, III
-Charles H. Percy
-Edward W. Brooke
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Age
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Age
-Potential
-Colson’s possible conversation with Connally
-Labor support
-Democratic party
-Left wing desire to keep Connally in the party
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-28 (cont’d)
-Mary Lasker
-William Benton
-Henry M. Jackson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
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