Date: April 19, 1972
Time: 12:57-1:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See also Conversation No. 331-24]
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Hearings
-Colson's report
-Harry D. Steward
-Edwin Reinecke
-Edgar Gillenwaters
-Jack Gleason
-Cancellation
-Afternoon session
-Delays
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 1/13)
-Gleason
-Absence
-Problems
-Administration tactics
-Postponement of hearings
-Gleason
-Adjournment
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony
-Length
-Germaneness fight
-Night sessions
-James O. Eastland's attitudes
-Roman L. Hruska
-Administration lobbying
Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Support
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] representative
-Charge of defeatism
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Barry M. Goldwater and Samuel S. Stratton
-Resolution
-News reports
-Republicans
-Demonstrations
-Number
-[Douglas L.?] Hallett
-Administration's countercharges
-North Vietnamese offensive
-John C. Stennis
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers's testimony
-Applause in Congress
-Democratic caucus
-Postponement
-Thomas P. O'Neill
-Democratic resolution
-Political consequences
-Opposition
-Stratton resolution
-Problems for Democrats
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 1/13)
-O’Neill
-Stratton
-Goldwater
-Criticism of Democrats
-The President's policies
-Consistency of supporters
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Charges against Democrats
-Joseph L. Vicites
-VFW
-Congressmen
-Public support
-The President's determination
-Public support
-Mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-George Meany
-Silence on issue
-Fitzsimmons
-Peter J. Brennan
-Henry C. Cashen II
-Attacks on antiwar Democrats
-Rogers
-Laird
-Television coverage
-Doves
-Impact
-News report
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak column
-The President's state of mind
-Inaccuracies
-Political considerations
ITT case
-Flanigan testimony
-Benefits
-Gleason testimony
-Adjournment
-Hearings
-Gillenwaters testimony
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