505–13

Conversation No. 505-13

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 1:41 pm - 2:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Killing of policeman in New York
-President’s view
-White House staff inaction
-Contacting widows
-Washington, DC police shooting
-Race
-White House response
-Colson's response
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] involvement
-Public action
-Justice Department
-Colson's response
-Funeral
-President's call to Edward J. Kiernan
-Leak to New York Daily News
-Exploitation of issue
-Justice Department
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Richard A. Moore
-Justice Department
-Possible conspiracy
-Justice Department
-Call to John W. Dean, III
-Legal basis
-Revolutionary conspiracy
-Smith Act
-Need for action
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Public opinion
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Conv. No. 505-13 (cont.)
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Killing of policeman in New York
-Need for legislation
-Justice Department
-Bureaucracy
-Dean
-Smith Act
-FBI involvement
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Justice Department
-Constitutional rights
-President's announcement
-Bombing, 1970
-Nixon bill on shooting policemen
-Blacks
-Black Panthers
-Black policeman
-Support for President
-Social issue
-Race and crime
-Concern over incidents in community
-Interviews in Harlem
-Possible visit to President
-Schweiker's bill
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press conference
-Publicity from phone calls and letters
-National fund for children
-Scholarships
-Moore
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-President’s position
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Position
-Washington, D.C. police
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. column
-Mailing
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Demonstrators Conv. No. 505-13 (cont.)
-(Madame) Nguyen Thi Binh
-Hanoi

Congress
-Amendments
-Draft
-Edward W. Brooke
-Robert P. Griffin
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Peace issue
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-J. William Fulbright quote
-William S. White
-Support
-Democratic presidential candidates
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George S. McGovern
-Muskie
-Antiballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Fulbright
-White
-Quote
-ABM
-Vote
-Draft
-Possible political impact
-Doves
-President's statement on SALT, May 20, 1971
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Colson's talk
-White
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Colson's note to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Article on ABM
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-Democrats
-Unknown person’s column
-Washington Post
-Democrats
-ABM vote
-Disarmament
-Arms control
-Colson's meeting with Brooke Conv. No. 505-13 (cont.)
-Possible foreign policy speech by Brooke
-Brook’s position on ABM
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Vote
-Timing
-House
-Senate
-SALT negotiations
-Public attention


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Colson left at 2:02 pm.