Date: April 5, 1972
Time: 10:00 am - 10:05 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See Conversation No. 330-12]
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-News summary report
-Hearings
-Republicans
-United Press International [UPI] dispatch
-Wallace H. Johnson
[The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:00 am and
10:05 am.]
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ITT case
-News summary report
-UPI dispatch
-Johnson
-Source
-Hugh Scott
-Press secretary
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Inaccuracies
-Hearings
-Roman L. Hruska’s strategy
-Vote
-Democrats’ strategy
-Filibuster and walkout
-James O. Eastland
-Quorum
-Edward M. Kennedy and John V. Tunney
-Clark MacGregor report
-Number
-Scott
-Compromise
-Timing
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Statements
-Reasons
-Lloyd M. Bentsen
-Talk with Kennedy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Campaign financing
-Public response
-Democrats
-George A. Smathers’s role
-Mansfield
-Press coverage
-Commentary on the fcase
-Bill Gill
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Talk with John A. Scali
-Public response
-Kennedy
-Perseverance
-Staff
-[Forename unknown] Foug [sp?] and [Forename unknown] Epstein
-Hearings
-Eastland
-John N. Mitchell
-Eastland
-Supporters
-Robert C. Byrd
-John L. McClellan
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Rules
-Proxies
-Filibuster
-Kennedy and Tunney
-Mansfield comments
-Tunney
-Possible talk with Eastland and Mansfield
-Republicans
-Scott
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Staff
-Mathias
-Supposed statement
-Defections
-Problems
-Partisanship
-Robert H. Finch remark
-Timetable
-Witnesses
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-William R. Merriam
-Unknown ITT employee
-Susan Lichtman
-Press conference
-Robert C. Wilson
-Johnson’s talk with Colson
-Edwin Reinecke
-William E. Timmons
-Peter M. Flanigan