Secret White House Tapes

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19–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Charles W. Colson
January 18, 1972
Conversation No. 19-4

Date: January 18, 1972
Time: 7:35 pm - 7:48 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Edward M. Kennedy
-Comments about Vietnam
-Robert J. Dole, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends
-Wire services story
-Scott's appearance on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Roger H. Mudd's comments
-Michael J. Mansfield's statement
-Republican response
-Arends
-Dole
-Colson's conversation about unknown book

Congress
-Clark MacGregor's efforts
-Republican leaders
-Noel C. Koch
-Republicans' mood
-Scott
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
-State of the Union
-Koch's views
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



-Edmund S. Muskie
-Mary McGrory's column, January 18, 1972
-Kennedy
-”Meet the Press” appearance
-Tone
-Kennedy
-Elliot L. Richardson's forthcoming speech
-Civil rights issue
-Boston
-Administration response
-Use of rhetoric

National economy
-Stock market
-Housing starts
-1971 figures
-Mortgage rates
-Prediction
-Federal budget deficit
-Washington Star, Washington Post stories
-Responses
-Conservatives
-Public
-Inflation
-Jobs

Muskie
-Effects of negative press
-Comparisons with Kennedy
-”Meet the Press”
-Hubert H. Humphrey's possible actions
-McGrory's column
-”Meet the Press”

Vietnam
-Dole's forthcoming speech
-Speechwriting source
-Ngo Dinh Diem coup
-Background of US involvement in war
-Democrats' responsibility for the war

Jay Lovestone
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



-Conversation with Colson, January 18, 1972
-George Meany
-Space shuttle
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO] reaction
-Supersonic transport [SST]
-Humphrey, Muskie
-Possible Administration strategy

Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Peter J. Brennan
-Fitzsimmons's relations with the administration
-Pay Board
-Dock strike
-Fitzsimmons's actions
-Harry Bridges
-Executive council

National economy
-Pay Board
-Teamsters Union
-Views of George P. Shultz and Colson
-Fitzsimmons
-West coast dock strike
-Colson’s memorandum of January 18, 1972
-Meany
-Bridges
-Administration handling
-The President's meeting with Shultz, January 18, 1972
-Possible administration response
-Timing
-Possible Administration response
-Proposed legislation's status
-Effect of strike on the West coast and on farmers
-John B. Connally's views
-Public reaction to strike

Congressional Republicans
-Ford
-Scott
-Meany
-Dole's forthcoming “Today” show appearance
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



-Barry M. Goldwater
-Conservatives
-Reaction to proposed defense budget increase
-Ford
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