Conversation: 032-093
Prev: 032-092 Next: 032-094Start Date: Tuesday, October 31, 1972 1:15 AM
End Date: Tuesday, October 31, 1972 1:37 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On October 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 8:15 pm to 8:37 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-093 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 32-93
Date: October 30, 1972
Time: 8:15 pm - 8:37 pm
Location: White House Telephone
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
1972 Campaign
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Appearances
-Radio talk
-Television program
-Radio talk
-News coverage
-Text
-Television appearance
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Time
-Statement
-Colson’s view
-McGovern’s statement about not supporting the President
-Vietnam peace settlement
-Sabotage of negotiations
-George S. McGovern
-Statement on Vietnam
-Meet the Press appearance
-John W. Chancellor
-Call to Charles W. Colson
-Question on peace settlement
-McGovern’s response
-Ted Van Dyke, Frank F. Mankiewicz
-Follow-up position
-Vietnam
-The President's line
-Negotiations
-Coalition government
-Comments
-Conditions for negotiations
-1972 election
-William P. Rogers
-Statement
-Conditions
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible Today show appearance
-Rebuttal to McGovern
-Date
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Tape Subject Log
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-Possible television appearance by John B. Connally
-Melvin R. Laird
-Criticism of McGovern
-Hawk line
-Watergate
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] report
-Issues
-CBS series
-Democrats for Nixon advertisement on defense
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's call to Colson
-Colson's call to William S. Paley
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Vietnam
-Peace settlement
-Problems with North Vietnamese
-The President’s position
-Refusal of a coalition government
-Influence of 1972 election on negotiations
-North Vietnamese role
-The President’s opposition
-Media
-Distortions of the President’s position
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US public attitudes
-Optimism
-Louis P. Harris
-North Vietnamese attitude
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-US response
-McGovern’s statement
-The President’s view
-Chancellor’s conversation with Colson
-Agnew
-Agnew’s rebuttal
-Transcript publicity
-Clark MacGregor rebuttal
-Congressional rebuttals
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