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40–86
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Charles W. Colson
June 13, 1973
Conversation No. 40-86
Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 9:41 pm - 9:53 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
President’s speech on economy
-Peter J. Brennan and Frank E. Fitzsimmon’s role
-Albert E. Sindlinger’s role
-Colson’s conversation
-Colson’s praise
-Freeze
-President’s delivery
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II, Thelma C. (“Pat”)
Nixon
-Gasoline and food prices
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
-John W. Chancellor’s commentary
-Shultz
-President’s reaction to Chancellor
-Leadership
Vietnam negotiations
-Paris communique
-significance
-President’s messages to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Aid to South Vietnam
-Effect
Watergate
-Compared to other issues
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-End of draft
-Accomplishments
-Reduction of casualties
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Maurice Stans
-Testimony
-68-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-86 (cont’d)
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. Edward J. Gurvey, and Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-John W. Dean, III
-Washington Star story, June 13
-Colson
-Transactional immunity
-Archibald Cox, prosecutors
-Use immunity
-Perjury, confession
-Use immunity
-John J. Sirica
-Grand Jury testimony
-Seymour Glanzer, Earl Silbert
-Fifth Amendment
-Effect
-Washington Star story, June 13
-Colson
-Colson
-Work on White House staff
-Dean
-Support of President
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview, June 15
-White House response
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-President’s possible response
-Allegations concerning William Bittman payoffs
-Position
-Newsweek
-Judas Iscariot
-Image
-News pictures in New York Times, Washington Star, and Newsweek
-Views of Cox and Samuel Dash
-Views of prosecutors
-Conversations with Colson
-Indictment
-Role in cover-up
-Motive
-President’s knowledge
-Request to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters concerning Central Intelligence
-69-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-86 (cont’d)
Agency [CIA] payroll
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Elliott L. Richardson
-President’s evaluation
-Statement concerning President’s need for lawyer
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Tenure
-Actions
-Meeting with Haig
-Responsibilities
-Cox
-Views concerning Clarence Kelley
-Haig
-Kelley
-Blacks’ view
-Relationship with President
-[First name unknown] Reaff [sp?]
-Richardson’s views
-Press story
-Jonathan Moore
-Richardson
-1964 campaign in Massachusetts
-Boston Herald-Traveler
-Tenure
-Actions
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Colson’s possible testimony
-Calls to committee
-Witness list
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Colson
-Dean
-Colson
-Colson’s possible testimony
-Calls to committee
-Press stories
President’s speech on national economy
-Colson’s call to Sindlinger
-70-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-87 (cont’d)
Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 9:41 pm - 9:53 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
President’s speech on economy
-Peter J. Brennan and Frank E. Fitzsimmon’s role
-Albert E. Sindlinger’s role
-Colson’s conversation
-Colson’s praise
-Freeze
-President’s delivery
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II, Thelma C. (“Pat”)
Nixon
-Gasoline and food prices
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
-John W. Chancellor’s commentary
-Shultz
-President’s reaction to Chancellor
-Leadership
Vietnam negotiations
-Paris communique
-significance
-President’s messages to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Aid to South Vietnam
-Effect
Watergate
-Compared to other issues
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-End of draft
-Accomplishments
-Reduction of casualties
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Maurice Stans
-Testimony
-68-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-86 (cont’d)
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. Edward J. Gurvey, and Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-John W. Dean, III
-Washington Star story, June 13
-Colson
-Transactional immunity
-Archibald Cox, prosecutors
-Use immunity
-Perjury, confession
-Use immunity
-John J. Sirica
-Grand Jury testimony
-Seymour Glanzer, Earl Silbert
-Fifth Amendment
-Effect
-Washington Star story, June 13
-Colson
-Colson
-Work on White House staff
-Dean
-Support of President
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview, June 15
-White House response
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-President’s possible response
-Allegations concerning William Bittman payoffs
-Position
-Newsweek
-Judas Iscariot
-Image
-News pictures in New York Times, Washington Star, and Newsweek
-Views of Cox and Samuel Dash
-Views of prosecutors
-Conversations with Colson
-Indictment
-Role in cover-up
-Motive
-President’s knowledge
-Request to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters concerning Central Intelligence
-69-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-86 (cont’d)
Agency [CIA] payroll
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Elliott L. Richardson
-President’s evaluation
-Statement concerning President’s need for lawyer
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Tenure
-Actions
-Meeting with Haig
-Responsibilities
-Cox
-Views concerning Clarence Kelley
-Haig
-Kelley
-Blacks’ view
-Relationship with President
-[First name unknown] Reaff [sp?]
-Richardson’s views
-Press story
-Jonathan Moore
-Richardson
-1964 campaign in Massachusetts
-Boston Herald-Traveler
-Tenure
-Actions
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Colson’s possible testimony
-Calls to committee
-Witness list
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Colson
-Dean
-Colson
-Colson’s possible testimony
-Calls to committee
-Press stories
President’s speech on national economy
-Colson’s call to Sindlinger
-70-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-87 (cont’d)