Conversation: 019-087
Prev: 019-086 Next: 019-088Start Date: Wednesday, January 26, 1972 3:17 AM
End Date: Wednesday, January 26, 1972 3:24 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On January 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 10:17 pm to 10:24 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-087 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 19-87
Date: January 25, 1972
Time: 10:17 pm - 10:24 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
The President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Possible effect
-Colson's conversation with Louis P. Harris
-Presidential credibility
-Public sympathy
-Possible reaction
-The President's opponents
-Veterans groups
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
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-Prisoners of war [POWs] wives
-Reaction
-“Hawks”
-John N. Ashbrook
-Left-wing
-POWs
-Colson's conversation with Brad Morris
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Mansfield Amendment
-Colson's conversation with Howard K. Smith
-Colson's meeting in MacGregor's office
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, Robert J. Dole
-J. William Fulbright
-Edward M. Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie
-Douglas L. Hallett
-Call to Kingman Brewster of Yale University
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 30s ]
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News focus
-Budget
-Effect of Vietnam speech
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