Secret White House Tapes

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22–13
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Charles W. Colson
March 24, 1972
Conversation No. 22-13

Date: March 24, 1972
Time: 12:54 pm - 1:12 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 326-16]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-The President’s upcoming press conference
-Latest developments
-President’s statements
-Administration’s antitrust record
-Colson’s memorandum
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Alger Hiss case
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] file
-Period of greatest growth
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations
-FBI report
-Letter
-Contradiction of experts’ finding
-Other tests
-White House instigated
-Possible results
-ITT press conference of experts
-Colson
-Date
-Tests
-FBI
-ITT
-Pearl L. Tytell test
-Walter McCrone test
-McCrone
-Meeting with FBI on March 24, 1972
-John D. Ehrlichman
-FBI
-Leak of story
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-Results of test on Dita D. Beard memorandum
-ITT strategy
-Timetable
-FBI conclusions
-Colson’s advice
-Unknown Senators’ trip to Denver
-The President’s strategy
-Beard
-FBI tests
-James O. Eastland
-Response
-Department of Justice
-Committee hearings
-Beard
-Hugh Scott
-John N. Mitchell

Section 315 vote on suspension of equal time requirements for the Presidential election
-Eastland’s vote
-Previous vote
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. Amendment
-Defeat in Senate
-Previous vote
-Partisanship
-Democrats
-Publicity
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-The President’s press conference
-Possible question
-Response
-Repeal
-Number of candidates
-Debates
-Television networks
-Free television time
-Congressional limitations on spending in presidential campaigns
-Possible veto
-Public response
-Tax check off
-Free television time
-Draft of veto message by Colson
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The President’s statement on George Meany, March 23, 1972
-Public response
-Network coverage
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Statements on the President’s statement
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Jacob K. Javits
-Support for the President
-Haldeman
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

The President’s instructions to Colson
-Letters to Time and Newsweek
-Cover story
-Letters to networks
-Busing issue
-Effectiveness
-Timing
-Telephone calls
-Busing issue
-Time and Newsweek
-Number of letters
-Letters to Time
-Clifford Irving hoax
-Cover story
-Spiro T. Agnew
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-Jack N. Anderson compared to Irving

ITT case
-Unknown action of Colson
-The President’s support
-Beard
-Document
-Colson
-Public response
-Memorandum to the President
-Mail to Congressmen
-Effect
-Source of information
-California
-San Diego
-Duration of publicity
-Anderson
-Roman L. Hruska statements
-Anderson compared with Louella Parsons
-News coverage
-White House instructions to Republican Congressmen

Labor
-Meany statement
-Network coverage
-Timing with Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-The President’s view
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Request for call to Colson
-Leaks in Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-CPI
-Meany
-Officials
-Colson’s view
-George P. Shultz
-Geoffrey H. Moore
-The President’s view
-Colson’s view
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally
-Appearances
-Split between Building Trades Council and American Federation of Labor –
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Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-George Meany
-Effects
Messages to Congressmen and Senators
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Connally
-Herbert Stein
-Democrats and Meany
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Attitude towards Meany
-Timing of release of poll
-Wage increases compared to stabilized prices

Fourteenth Amendment
-Court interpretation
-Racial balance
-Busing
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