400–11

Conversation No. 400-11

Date: January 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:40 pm and 4:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

1973 Inauguration
-Success
-The President’s Inaugural speech
-Press coverage
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Church service
-Inaugural ball
-Dan Rather
-The President's demeanor
-Bias
-The President's Inaugural speech
-Foreign policy
-Nixon Doctrine
-John F. Kennedy supporters
-Isolationism
-Effect on public
-Memorable lines
-May 8, 1972 speech
-Nixon Doctrine
-State Department, William P. Rogers
-Meaning
-US role in world
-Liberal position
-1972 election
-Popular vote
-Compared to George S. McGovern
-Press coverage
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Church service
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Conversation No. 400-11 (cont’d)

-William F. (“Billy”) Graham, Edgar Magnin
-Switch to McGovern's statements
-Church service
-Mormon Tabernacle Choir
-President's Inaugural speech
-Friend of Colson’s report
-Government responsibility
-Compare to John F. Kennedy's Inaugural speech

Public relations [PR]
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-The President's opponents
-Draft resisters
-Doves
-Hugh Scott
-Statement about diplomacy
-Strategy against the President's opponents
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Herbert G. Klein
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Compared to Kennedy administration after Bay of Pigs
-Press relations
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Success
-Scali
-Klein
-Buchanan
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Letters
-White House, editors, Congress
-Commentators, columnists
-The President's press relations
-Congress
-Post-Inauguration treatment
-Political orientation
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Conversation No. 400-11 (cont’d)

Press relations
-Differing beliefs
-Bias
-1972 election
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Response to the President's margin of victory
-Helen Thomas
-McGovern
-Polls
-Late gains
-Opposition to the President
-Enemies

Watergate
-Response
-John Davies [?]
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
-Mitchell
-Haldeman
-Possible law suit
-Hearsay
-Malice
-Wire services
-Editorial apology
-Deposition
-Damages
-Press release
-Retraction
-Drew Pearson
-Editors’ response
-The President's knowledge
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Responsibility

Inaugural parade
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Motorcade incidents
-Secret Service
-Unknown person's actions around the President's car
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Conversation No. 400-11 (cont’d)

-The President's response
-Prosecution
-John W. Dean, III
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman

Raymond K. Price, Jr. talked with President between 4:05 pm and 4:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 400-11A]

[See Conversation No. 36-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

Price
-The President's inaugural speech
-Reaction
-Drafting

Inaugural parade
-Motorcade incidents
-Items thrown at the President
-Unknown person's actions around the President's car
-Prosecution
-Demonstrators
-Youth
-Colson’s reaction
-Patricia Colson
-Demonstrators

Press relations
-CBS
-Time story
-Possible retraction
-The President's response
-Lawsuit
-Hunt
-Ehrlichman
-William O. Bittman [?]
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield [?]
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Conversation No. 400-11 (cont’d)

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:06 pm and
4:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 400-11B]

[See Conversation No. 36-43]

[End of telephone conversation]

Time story

The President talked with Ziegler between 4:13 pm and 4:14 pm.

[Conversation No. 400-11C]

[See Conversation No. 36-45]

[End of telephone conversation]

Time story
-Jerrold L. Schecter

The President talked with the White House operator at 4:14 pm.

[Conversation No. 400-11D]

[See Conversation No. 36-45]

[End of telephone conversation]

Time story
-Schecter

The President talked with Ziegler between 4:15 pm and 4:16 p.m.

[Conversation No. 400-11E]

[See Conversation No. 36-46]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Conversation No. 400-11 (cont’d)


Press relations
-1973 Inauguration coverage
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Reporter
-Rogers
-Television [TV]
-Washington Star
-Ziegler
-Administration strategy
-Journalists
-Cohesiveness

Charitable organization

Unknown person
-Physical description

Haldeman [?]

Unknown person
-Loyalty
-Political leanings

Buchanan [?]

Nelson A. Rockefeller

John B. Connally
-Age
-Compared to the President

Press relations
-Ziegler
-Washington Post
-Ehrlichman

Politics
-Governors
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Conversation No. 400-11 (cont’d)

-Republicans
-Congressional relations
-Democrats
-Carl B. Albert
-Thomas P. (“Tip”) O'Neill
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Governors[?]
-Unknown group
-Compared to Republicans
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Segregation
-Blacks
-George C. Wallace supporters
-Haldeman
-Ziegler [?]
-Governors [?]
-McGovern
-Eugene J. McCarthy [?]
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Inaugural parade
-McGovern

The President’s schedule
-Weekends

Colson left at 4:35 pm.