Secret White House Tapes

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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • White House operator
  • Charles W. Colson
July 29, 1971
Conversation No. 7-32

Date: July 29, 1971
Time: 8:00 pm - 8:19 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Charles W. Colson

Rose Mary Woods’ location

The President talked with Colson.

Colson's schedule
-Weather

Economic briefing by John B. Connally and George P. Shultz
-Senators reaction
-Charles H. Percy
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Robert P. Griffin

Colson's meeting with Hobart D. Lewis
-Forthcoming articles
-Martin S. Hayden (?) editorial
-China initiative
-Lewis
-Right wing reaction
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Book on trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Cuba comparison

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Colson's call
-Coverage of the President
-Scene with little girl
-Robert Pierpoint narration
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-PRC
-Compared to John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Dan Rather
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-Coverage of economy
-Coverage of the President
-Impact of Frank Stanton meeting
-Human interest
-Eisenhower
-Capitol Hill
-Scene with little girl
-Walter Cronkite Conv. No. 7-32 (cont.)
-Note from the President
-Committee investigation
-Clarence J. (\"Bud\") Brown, Jr.
-Editorials

China initiative
-Lewis
-John G. Tower
-Peter H. Dominick
-Percy
-John A. Volpe
-Visit to Convention of Catholic Laymen
-Prayer for the President's journey for peace

Louis Harris polls
-Credibility
-New survey
-China initiative, economy

Colson's meeting with public information officers [PIOs]
-Economic news stories
-Wright Patman comments
-Depression of 1929
-Unemployment rate, 1960-1964

Economy
-American Society of Association Executives, July 27, 1971
-Machine tool industry
-Arthur F. Burns
-Positive statement
-Alan Greenspan calls to Colson
-Burns
-Retail sales
-Unemployment figures
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-Bureau of Labor Standards [BLS]
-Percentage
-Briefing reaction
-Connally
-Feedback
-Machine tool industry
-Connally
-Harris Conv. No. 7-32 (cont.)
-Consumers
-Retail sales
-Steel strike
-Automobiles
-Harris meeting with Colson
-Domestic Council poll
-Inflation
-Price breakdown
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Basic commodities
-Paul W. McCracken
-Food prices
-Farm prices
-Consumer market
-Transportation costs
-Basic commodities
-Inflation
-Compared to other countries

The President's schedule

Economy
-Capitol Hill

Spiro T. Agnew's trip
-Colson's talk with John A. Scali
-Press reports
-Newsweek
-Timing
-Agnew's constituency
-Scali
-Colson's talk with \"an old line Democrat Italian politician from New England\"
-Administration support
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