Secret White House Tapes

13–60

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13–60
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Charles W. Colson
November 1, 1971
Conversation No. 13-60

Date: November 1, 1971
Time: 7:42 pm - 8:03 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Foreign aid bill
-Melvin R. Laird's statement
-Press coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Wire services
-Senate vote on foreign aid
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming statement
-Conversation with John A. Scali

George Meany and E. Frank Fitzsimmons
-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
-Possible actions by other labor leaders
-James Suffridge
-Paul Hall
-Wheat shipments
-Oil shipments
-President's schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan, George P. Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting with William McMahon
-Colson's schedule
-Flanigan's views
-Oil, farm policies
-Shultz's views
-Farm issue
-Hall, Suffridge
-Fitzsimmons
-Jay Lovestone
-Forthcoming meeting with Colson
-Joseph A. Beirne
-Joseph D. Keenan
-Pay Board
-Possible legislation
-Views about pay increases and freeze
-Shultz
-Possible administration alternatives
-Possible strikes
-Popular support for President's economic program
-Role in American Federation of Labor-Council of Industrial Organizations [AFL-
CIO]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



Foreign aid program
-Scali's efforts
-Colson
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Harry S. Truman

Edward W. Brooke, Jr.
-Call to Colson
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Statements
-Recent voting record

Edmund S. Muskie
-Voting record

Hubert H. Humphrey
-Voting record

Agnew
-Forthcoming speech
-Senators' voting records

Kennedy
-Statements

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Possible clemency
-Fitzsimmons
-Colson’s view
-Parole Board
-Forthcoming decision in July 1972
-John N. Mitchell's role
-Decision, August 1971
-Connections with unions
-Possible clemency
-Fitzsimmons
-Pay Board
-Control of Teamsters
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



Pay Board meeting, October 1972
-Attendees
-Meany
-Fitzsimmons, Leonard Woodcock

Hoffa
-Parole Board
-Kennedy's possible actions
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Time in prison
-Popular opinion
-Possible clemency
-White House action
-Reaction
-Life magazine
-Clark Mollenhoff
-Edward Kennedy
-Mollenhoff
-Justification
-Parole Board
-August 1972 meeting
-Fitzsimmons
-Possible clemency
-Justification
-Popular opinion
-Time in prison
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-Conduct in prison
-Wife, Josephine [Poszywak]
-Hoffa's health

Pay Board
-Fitzsimmons’ role
-Shultz's view
-Arnold R. Weber

Teamsters
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



Fitzsimmons
-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
-Pay Board
-Meany
-Hoffa

Foreign aid program

National economy
-President's Phase II program
-Colson's forthcoming call to Fitzsimmons
-Status
-Retail credit
-John B. Connally
-Schedule
-Relations with labor leaders
-Meany
-Pay Board
-Colson's forthcoming conversation with Lovestone
-Meany's possible actions
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