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23–46
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Charles W. Colson
April 19, 1972
Conversation No. 23-46

Date: April 19, 1972
Time: 8:49-9:03 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Testimony
-Outcome
-James O. Eastland's ruling
-Questions for John N. Mitchell
-Corporate contributions
-Unknown person's answer
-Peter M. Flanigan
-A vote
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Administration line
-Publicity
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Hearings
-John B. Connally
-Outcome
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 1/13)



Vietnam
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Democrats
-Charges of disloyalty
-Aid to enemy
-Defeatism
-Candidates
-Support of enemy
-Colleges and universities
-Dissidence
-Public disapproval
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The Vice President
-Counterattack
-Charles H. Percy's statement
-The President's policies
-Critics
-The Vice President's attacks
-Labor support
-Building trades
-Critics
-Support for communists and the enemy
-Charges
-Political liabilities

ITT case
-Flanigan testimony
-Likely outcome
-Flanigan
-Public indifference
-News coverage of case
-Decline

Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Performance
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s assessment
-Bombing
-Impact on morale of South Vietnamese and Thais
-Impact on North Vietnam
-The Vice President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 1/13)



Economy
-Prices
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Jawboning
-April figures
-Inflation rate
-Spokesmen
-Marina von N. Whitman, Herbert Stein and Ezra Solomon
-Stein, Paul W. McCracken and Hendrik S. Houthakker
-Lack of public relations sense
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