23–30

Conversation No. 23-30


Date: April 18, 1972
Time: 8:25-8:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See also Conversation No. 332-8]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Hearings in Senate
-Vote on Peter M. Flanigan's terms for appearance
-Edward M. Kennedy's dissent
-Questions on Richard G. Kleindienst
-Benefits for administration
-Witnesses
-Edgar Gillenwaters
-Edwin Reinecke
-Jack Gleason
-Harry D. Steward
-Completion of testimony
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Tape Subject Log
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-Gillenwaters and Reinecke
-Length
-Committee debates
-Delays
-Philip A. Hart
-Kennedy and John V. Tunney
-Edward J. Gurney
-Order of testimony
-John N. Mitchell
-James O. Eastland
-Resolution for other witnesses
-Defeat
-Termination
-Outcome
-Flanigan testimony
-Conditions
-Gains for administration
-Kleindienst

Vietnam
-Joseph L. Vicites
-Attacks on Democrats
-US war effort in Vietnam
-US Senators
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Publicity
-Television
-Washington papers
-Ads
-William P. Rogers
-Briefing of spokesmen and House members
-Statements
-Melvin R. Laird
-Testimony
-Story on bombing
-Rogers
-Meet the Press
-Meeting with congressmen
-Timing
-Democratic caucus
-Thomas P. O'Neill
-Resolution
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-Samuel S. Stratton
-Opposition to resolution
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Resolution
-The Vice President
-Meeting with editors
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with editors
-Peter J. Brennan
-Conversation with Colson
-Attacks on communists
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Statement
-Support for the President
-George Meany
-Statements
-The President's chances in November election
-Jay Lovestone
-Frank Fitzsimmons
-Statement
-Pressure on Meany
-Support for the President
-Speech in New York
-Support for the President in November
-Publicity
-New York Daily News
-New York Times
-Senate supporters
-Statements
-Gordon L. Allott, Robert J. Dole, Robert P. Griffin, Gale W. McGee,
Clifford P. Hansen, Goldwater, William E. Brock, III, Howard H.
Baker, Jr. and Gurney
-Administration's position
-Spokesmen
-Positive psychology
-Opposition to invasion
-Rogers
-Statement
-Laird
-Statement
-Public support
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll results
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Tape Subject Log
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Economy
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Latest news
-Peter G. Peterson briefing
-Retail sales
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Figures
-Wholesale prices
-Release of data
-Timing
-Food prices
-Decline
-Marina von N. Whitman, Ezra Solomon and Herbert Stein
-Whitman as spokesperson
-John A. Scali
-Advisors
-Paul W. McCracken
-Stein
-Hendrik S. Houthakker
-Quality as spokesmen
-Food prices
-Connally, the Vice President and Whitman
-Publicity
-Control of issue

ITT case
-Testimony
-Flanigan
-Length of time
-Cessation
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Cessation of hearings
-Committee
-Report on hearings
-Kleindienst
-Robert C. Byrd
-Cooperation with administration
-Flanigan testimony
-Administration concessions
-Press reactions
-Kenneth W. Clawson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 1/13)



-Flanigan as witness
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Gleason
-Concerns about testimony
-Schedule problems
-Mitchell
-Eastland
-John H. Holloman III
-Testimony
-Flanigan
-Reinecke
-Republicans in Senate
-Reactions
-Roman L. Hruska
-Marlow W. Cook
-Gurney

Vietnam
-Democrats
-Silence
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Republican attacks
-Support of enemy
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Griffin and Dole
-Connally and the Vice President
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Knowledge
-Rogers and Laird
-Editors convention
-Distribution of administration line
-Clawson
-The Vice President
-The Vice President
-Television appearance in Texas