621–43

Conversation No. 621-43

Date: November 22, 1971
Time: 9:10 am - 10:22 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Colson's previous meeting
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Pay Board
-Peter G. Peterson
-Reaction to the President's speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress
of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-George H. Boldt
-The President's previous conversation with George P. Shultz
-George Meany

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:10 am.

Boldt
-William Proxmire

National economy
-The President's program
-Rumsfeld
-Boldt and C. Jackson Grayson
-Role
-Shultz
-Views
-Conversations with Colson
-Pay Board
-Meany
 47

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Press coverage
-John B. Connally’s comments
-Meany
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Administration reaction
-Gerald R. Ford
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Cabinet
-Press coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-High school students
-News summary
-Roger H. Mudd
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President's conversation with unknown man
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Stephen B. Bull
-Wire services
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-The President’s opponents
-The media
-Meany, Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

Vietnam
-Military dispositions
-The President's previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Cambodia
-Press coverage

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Press coverage
-The President’s appearance
-Shultz
-The President's intentions
-Administration response
-William E. Brock III and Ford
-Robert J. Dole
-Ford
-Press coverage
-The President's “Checkers” Speech in 1952
 48

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-White House response
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Connally's view
-The President's reaction
-Connally's forthcoming press conference
-Administration’s relations with labor
-The President's conversation with Connally
-Pay Board
-Shultz's views
-Krapow's [David Kraslow?] views

The President’s opponents
-Humphrey, Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr. and Edmund S. Muskie
-Tactics
-Veracity
-White House response
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-White House response
-The President's opponent's veracity
-\"Big Lie\" technique
-Adolph Hitler
-1948 campaign
-Harry S. Truman's veracity
-White House response

Kissinger's schedule
-Barry M. Goldwater

AFL-CIO convention
-Humphrey's telegram
-Content
-Muskie and Jackson

Colson
-Attacks by the President's opponents
-Murray M. Chotiner

Public relations
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Role
 49

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-Patrick J. Buchanan
-The President’s view
-Nofziger
-Relationship with Dole

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Press coverage
-White House response
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll
-Frank J. Lausche's conversation with the President
-Press coverage

Kissinger entered at 9:29 am.

Goldwater

Kissinger left at 9:30 am.

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention

Kissinger and Goldwater entered at 9:31 am.

Congress
-Senate
-Goldwater
-Ford
-Goldwater
-Colson's view

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Meany
-Public reaction
-Response
-Senate
-Cabinet
-Connally
-Goldwater
 50

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-Attendance at Cowboys reception
-Meany’s daughter
-Congressional response
-Dole, John G. Tower, Peter H. Dominick, Brock, Howard H. Baker, Jr. and
Hugh Scott

Campaign finance legislation
-Goldwater’s view
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Possible veto

John F. Kennedy-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. Labor Bill
-Goldwater
-Vote
-Conversation with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Analogy to current campaign finance legislation

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Opponents of the President's policy
-As issue
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Lyndon B. Johnson's bombing policy
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-The President's possible speech
-Public reaction

National defense
-Goldwater's conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-Defense budget
-The President's efforts
-Weapons systems
-Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles [MIRVs]
-Aircraft
-B-1, F-14, F-15

Conservatives
-Reagan group
-Goldwater's possible efforts

Amchitka test
 51

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-Telegrams to White House
-Environmentalists
-Supreme Court
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-Reasoning
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Conservatives' reaction
-Goldwater
-William F. Buckley, Jr.

Conservatives
-Attacks on the President
-Human Events
-Defense
-PRC
-Domestic policy
-Supreme Court nominees
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-The President's efforts for national defense
-ABMs and MIRVs
-The President's conversation with Reagan
-Goldwater's previous conversation with Buckley
-Buckley, Goldwater, Franck Lausche, and Dean Manning [sp?]
-Board membership
-Support for the President
-Possible attacks
-Meany
-Humphrey, Muskie, George S. McGovern, Edward M. Kennedy
-Eisenhower's presidency
-1960 election
-Possible attacks by Republicans
-Charles H. Percy, Jacob K. Javits and James B. Pearson
-James L. Buckley, Brock, Baker and Paul J. Fannin
-Goldwater
-Publicity
-Washington Post
-Human Events
-Buckley
 52

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


Thomas G. Wicker

Theodore Roosevelt

Kissinger and Goldwater left at 9:46 am.

Conservatives
-Senators
-Possible attacks on the President's opponents
-Dole
-The President’s view


*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 16s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

*****************************************************************


White House staff
-Congressional relations
-Bryce N. Harlow and Clark MacGregor
-Colson
-Cabinet
-George H. W. Bush and Elliot L. Richardson

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Popular reaction
-Wire service reports
-Sindlinger poll
-Meany's daughter

Meany
-Possible White House Response
-Wire service report
 53

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-Horse race in Miami
-Actions
-White House response
-1972 election
-Possible White House response
-James D. Hodgson
-Pay raise issue
-Meany’s salary increase
-The President’s salary
-Congressional action
-The President's possible action
-John D. Ehrlichman's view
-Meany’s position
-White House response
-Possible White House attacks
-Meany’s salary and benefits
-Limousine
-Cigars


*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 17s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

*****************************************************************


-Possible photograph
-Colson’s efforts

Photographers

Public relations
-The President’s previous meeting with students
-Press coverage
-CBS
 54

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-Jo Anne Haldeman's views


*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 25s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

*****************************************************************


Public relations
-Colson and staff
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin's staff
-News summary
-CBS
-Lausche and George D. Aiken

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Meany
-Effect
-Victor Riesel
-Actions
-Press coverage
-Associated Press [AP] story
-Frank Cormier
-Possible effect
-The President's economic program
-Shultz, Connally and Rumsfeld
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz, Rumsfeld and Connally
-Polls

Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:46 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with PRC officials
 55

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-Location
-Helms
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Logistics

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.

The President's opponents
-White House public relations efforts


*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 19s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

*****************************************************************


-White House efforts

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Popular opinion
-Connally's view
-Shultz, Connally, Rumsfeld, Colson, and Haldeman
-Pay Board
-Meany
-Shultz

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Aiken's call to the President
-Possible vote
-Harlow
-Jack R. Miller's previous meeting with Butz
-Role with administration
-Senators' views
 56

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-Previous conversation with MacGregor
-White House support
-MacGregor's previous conversation with Miller
-Confirmation
-Miller
-The President’s view
-White House support
-Forthcoming vote
-Possible White House action
-Alternate candidates
-Harlow
-Conversation with John C. Whitaker
-Louie B. Nunn
-John A. Love
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Harlow’s view
-Laird
-Experience


*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 4s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

*****************************************************************


-Search for candidates
-Donald E. Johnson
-Possible confirmation
-Relations with Miller
-Robert D. Ray
-Miller's efforts
-White House position
-Soviet Union grain shipments
-White House support
 57

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 621-43 (cont.)


-MacGregor

John N. Mitchell
-Tenure in office
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Connally

Shultz

Connally

Kissinger

Colson and Haldeman left at 10:22 am.