Secret White House Tapes

611–4

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611–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Charles W. Colson
November 2, 1971
Conversation No. 611-4

Date: November 2, 1971
Time: 10:50 am - 10:59 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-3 (cont.)




National economy
-Pay Board
-Colson's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Jay Lovestone
-Business representatives' efforts
-Wage contracts
-Shultz
-1971 increases
-1972 standard
-Freeze period
-Deferred increases
-Shultz's possible meeting with George Meany
-Shultz’s view
-Employers' possible actions
-Deferred increases
-Strikes
-Steel industry
-Strategy
-Timing
-Meany's possible actions
-Timing
-Convention
-The President's schedule
-Arnold R. Weber, Shultz and Colson

James R. Hoffa
-Executive clemency
-Timing
-Parole Board
-Justification
-Parole Board
-John N. Mitchell
-Fitzsimmons
-Alleged commitment
-August 15, 1971 announcement
-Executive clemency
-Building trades unions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-4 (cont.)



-John D. Ehrlichman

Option paper
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Oil
-Meeting
-Effects
-Labor support
-Building trades
-Fitzsimmons
-Meany

National economy
-Pay Board
-Shultz
-Business members
-Importance to the President's economic program
-New economic policy
-Tax
-Surcharge
-International monetary policy
-Public impact

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

William McMahon's arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:59 am.

Colson's schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Weber, Shultz and Donald H. Rumsfeld

Colson left at 10:59 am.
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