Conversation: 376-026
Prev: 376-025 Next: 376-027Start Date: Thursday, November 2, 1972 3:50 PM
End Date: Thursday, November 2, 1972 4:22 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; White House operator; Holm, Holly; Howard, W. Rick; [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On November 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, Holly Holm, W. Richard Howard, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:50 am to 11:22 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 376-026 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 376-26
Date: November 2, 1972
Time: 10:50 am - 11:22 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
Greetings
The President talked with the White House operator at an Unknown time between 10:50 am and
10:55 am.
[Conversation No. 376-26A]
[See Conversation No. 32-139]
[End of telephone conversation]
News coverage of 1972 campaign practices
-Demonstrations in Boston and San Diego
-News summary
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Frank Mankiewicz's charges
-Donald H. Segretti
-Hiring of unknown person
-Patrick J. Buchanan's analysis
-Agreement from Colson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], National Broadcasting
Corporation [NBC]
-Carl [last name unknown], George Meany
-Mankiewicz
-Archie Bunker type demonstrator
-Fight with George S. McGovern supporters
The White House operator talked with the President at 10:55 am.
[Conversation No. 376-26B]
[See Conversation No. 32-140]
[End of telephone conversation]
1972 election
-Demonstrators and McGovern tactics
-Boston
-Police action
-Reaction by public
-Press coverage
-Administration charges
-Clark MacGregor's statement
-News summary
-Instructions from the President
-McGovern, R. Sargent Shriver
-Organization in cities
-Miami
-Moral responsibility
-Columnists
-Vermont C. Royster, Nicolas P. Thimmesch, John S. (“Jack”) Knight
-University of Texas Young Republican President John Boardman
-John Connally
-Name calling
-News summaries
-George C. Wallace
-Support for the President
-Connally’s statement
-News coverage
-News summaries
-Detroit News
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-New York Daily News
-Dallas Morning News
-Jim Wright
-Comparison of the President's, McGovern's campaigns
-Kenneth Clawson, Al Abrahms
-Surrogates
-Polls
-Minneapolis Tribune
-Analysis
-Questions
-Critique of campaign conduct
-The President's compared with McGovern's conduct
-Percentages
-New York Daily News
-Albert Sindlinger
-The President's standing
Colson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:23
am.
-Watergate
Colson talked with Holly Holm at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:23 am.
Colson talked with W. Richard Howard at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:23 am.
[Conversation No. 376-26C; one item has been removed from the conversation]
[See Conversation No. 32-141]
[End of telephone conversation]
-Polls
-Shifts
-History
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Comparisons
-Last-minute strategy
-McGovern
-Demeanor
-Apathy
-Robert J. Dole
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Summary of abuses
-News summary
-Agnew
-Scheduled press conference
-Los Angeles
-Demonstrators
-Heckling
-Antics
-Rationale
-Actions by the President’s supporters compared to those by McGovern’s
supporters
-Segretti
-Gabriel Hauge
-Peter M. Flanigan
-New York
-Wilbur D. Mills, J., William Fulbright
-Charges
-Republican campaign tactics
-Response
-Possible press conference
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 20s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Issues
-Watergate
-Staff concern
-Haig
-Economy
-Food prices
-Taxes
-1960 election
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Inflation
-Thomas W. Dewey
-Watergate
-Crime
-Negative advertisements
-Dole
President’s forthcoming speech
Polls
-The President's standing
-Sindlinger
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Effect on voters
-Prospects in 1972 election
-Analysis
-Favorable percentages
Issues
-Speech appeal to New American Majority
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Richard M. Scammon
-1924 election, [John] Calvin Coolidge
-Comparisons
-Corruption, campaign practices
-Segretti
-Success of charges
-Practices
-The President’s view
-Dallas Morning News
Article in news summary compared to Detroit News
-Agnew, Dole
-Use of issues
-Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird’s press conference
-Milwaukee
-William P. Rogers's appearance on Meet the Press, George Shultz
-Settlement possibility
-Possible strategy
An unknown person talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:22
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
am.
[Conversation No. 376-26D]
Schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
Issues
-Last-minute strategy on McGovern campaign practices
-Demonstrators
-McGovern positions
-Welfare, increased taxes, Vietnam
-Agnew
-[Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox] Thelma C. “Pat” Nixon
-Vietnam charges
-Sabotaging peace
-“Peace with surrender”
Colson left at 11:22 am.