Conversation: 006-157
Prev: 006-156 Next: 006-158Start Date: Sunday, July 18, 1971 10:05 PM
End Date: Monday, July 19, 1971 10:26 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:14:32
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:33:37
NARA Description:
President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone on an unknown date, sometime between 6:05 pm on July 18, 1971 and 6:26 pm on July 19, 1971. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-157 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 6-157
Date: Unknown between July 18 and July 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 7:59 pm, July 18 and 6:44 pm, July 19, 1971
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
President's trip from California to Washington, July 18, 1971
-Airport arrival
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's role
-US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] breakthrough
-Military reaction
-Colson's conversation with unknown man ["Chappie" James ?]
-Geo-political impact
-Effect
-US position in world
John F. Kennedy
-Dean G. Acheson's interview in British newspaper
Democrats
Vietnam
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-News media
-Pentagon Papers
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Jerald F. terHorst's article
President's schedule
-terHorst
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Book on Chappaquiddick incident (The Bridge at Chappaquiddick)
-Veracity of statements
Pentagon Papers
Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-US casualty figures
Colson's conversation with Frank Stanton
-The President's previous meeting with National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Television news coverage of administration by Columbia Broadcasting System
[CBS]
-Tone
-Roger H. Mudd
-NBC
-Julian Goodman's conversation after meeting with the President
The US-PRC initiative
-Hugh S. Sidey's characterization of foreign relations impact
-The press and its impact on public opinion
-Statement by the Australians
-Indochina
-Effect on Congress
-Charles H. Percy, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Paul J. Fannin
-Congressional comment
-Press reaction to the President's airport reception
-Greeting by the Presidents' family
-Impact of announcement
-The stock market
-Arthur F. Burns
-Public reaction