Secret White House Tapes

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  • Charles W. Colson
  • President Richard M. Nixon
June 13, 1973
Conversation No. 40-95

Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 10:32 pm - 10:39 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Charles W. Colson talked with the President.

Louis P. Harris

-Previous conversation with President

-President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Contracts with Harris and Albert E. Sindlinger
-George H. W. Bush
Harris and Sindlinger’s support for President
-Position

-Conversation with Colson

-National mood

-Leonid I. Brezhnev visit

-President’s speech on economy

-Harris’s enthusiasm
-Watergate

President’s speech on the economy
-Sindlinger’s response

-Phase IV

-George P. Shultz

-Position

-President’s opposition

-Herbert Stein

-Position

-President’s opposition

-Sindlinger’s position on President’s policies

-Stein and Shultz’s position

-Disagreements with President

-Sindlinger

-Harris

-Colson

-Politics

-Public confidence

-Watergate

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-95 (cont’d)

-Food price inflation

National economy
-Stock exchange member firms
-New York, Houston
-Colson’s meeting with Brokers, June 12

-Watergate

-Stock broker enthusiasm for President’s economic plans


Watergate
-Press coverage
-President’s reaction
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Press

-Popular opinion

-Silent Majority

-Cover-up

-Press coverage

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Consequences

-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] comparison

-Compared to Robert L. Vesco case

-Prosecution

-ITT and Vesco vases

-Need for White House statement

-Public Relations [PR]

-Elliott L. Richardson

-Tenure

-Actions

-President’s role

-Washington Post and New York Times

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s response

-Haig

-Colson’s support


President’s speech on the economy
-Effect
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-95 (cont’d)

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s opinion

-President’s tone

-Cockiness


Watergate

-Press portrayal of President

-New York Times

-Washington Post

-Television [TV] networks

-Response

-TV speeches, press conferences

-John W. Dean, III

-Transactional immunity

-Effect

-Possible attacks

-Colson

-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

-Question of Maurice H. Stans

-Edward J. Gurney
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